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This article offers a triangular reading of a contemporary Romanian novel, namely Simona Sora's Complaisance. Ascension in the orthopaedics ward/A guest for life (2020), in the frame of epistemological pluralism. To this end, each of the three co-authors opted for different epistemological perspectives, spanning memory studies, ethics, and literary aesthetics. In the first section, Simona Mitroiu uses a "memory-work method" and applying narrative analysis she reads Sora's novel in relation to several cultural productions dealing with Romanian women's experience in relationships of power. In the same context-dependent framework, Laura Pricop embraces, in the second section, an ethical perspective and retraces the steps taken by a woman to free herself from a conscience educated in the spirit of complaisance and obedience under the communist regime. Finally, Andreea Mironescu deciphers in Sora's novel the allegorisation of two antagonic, although co-existent, ways of reading and interpreting, arguing that such antagonism between a suspicious and affective reading has a wide cultural relevance, especially on how we read the past. The three analyses make a stronger case for how epistemological pluralism works in practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The doctor-patient communication as the basis of health communication matrix, regardless the level at which it takes place - national, international or global - has a diversified, inhomogeneous base. This disparate legacy led to a development of health communication types of communication patterns taken from other sciences (psychology, computer science, anthropology, sociology, public policy, etc.) applied in particular contexts. The direct consequence of this fact has led to the proliferation of communication patterns based on medical schools, successful personalities in health, cultural values, moral, social, political of the various communities. In recent research in this field, that see in communication an end in itself, reducing communication theories as more structured models adopt a bottom-up perspective on specific issues facing today's society (poverty, human rights, health) but with wider applicability (Jon Christianson) has been tried to be applied. Another perspective in health communication is the overall approach (Obregon and Waisbord) that tried a strengthening of health communication through the convergence of communication theories. The paradigm in which we have outlined these tests is a common communication development. In this paper I will try an approach to doctor-patient communication starting from the communicational paradigm, supporting the possibility of convergence of communication theories based on interrogative strategies essential to any kind of communication. As methodology for addressing this problem, of pragmatic reasons I will outline first the current directions of development of communication intended to provide an overview of the doctor-patient communication as an integral part of global health communication. In the second stage, the research will focus on interrogative strategies, questions types and ways to use. The pragmatic aim of this paper would be to outline an effective tool easy to adapt to complex situations involved in the doctor-patient communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Actions to help those who are in an extreme situation fall within supererogatory acts, i.e. "it would be better" to occur, but the inaction is not sanctioned, "not wrong." The two phrases, "right" and "wrong" applies the same people in the same circumstances, with the same obligations. In this paper I will try to determine the moral value of the supererogatory actions at an individual level, taking into account the institutional commitments that political decisions are determined by cultural, ideological contexts, and likely to violating moral principles. The supererogatory acts will be analyzed from two perspectives: a) the effective action derived from a personal ethics (classical utilitarianism), b) strategic actions arising from impersonal considerations related to consequences (utilitarianism). To grasp how individuals perceive and evaluate the quality of the supererogatory actions a questionnaire (testing hypotheses) was applied. Through this, it was intended, on the one hand, to establish the coordinates of which the supererogatory actions are placed (as defined as actions that lie beyond the debt), on the other hand, at another level of analysis it ranged the attempt to distinguish between the consequences and conditions of performing (reciprocity) supererogatory actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In its essence, the problematologic model assumes the possibility that a question can receive at the same time without contradiction, several answers. Multiple answers may retain the equivalence relation only to the extent not to lose touch with the question that generated the problematologic difference. In this context, the dialogue as a way of using the language performs, according to the problematologic theory, two functions: a critical and an epistemological one. These two functions, as I will try to argue, may indicate the dynamic evolution of the dialogue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we tried to emphasize the theoretical elements that underlie the integration process; to identify control points of the integration process where theory actually finds the possibility to act. The full perspective on the integration process has profound philosophical implications, because it is based on the concept of dialogue, and should discern between the types of relationships that establish a dialogue between participants. On the other hand, at methodological-applied level, we tried to highlight the mechanisms that are naturally triggered in the regional, cultural, ideological, religious process of integration, and the corrective elements where failures occur. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]