L'obbedienza è (ancora) una virtù? : vincoli normativi e limiti sistemici dell'obbedienza

The essay takes its cue from the reflections on normative ambivalence and obedience dilemmas elaborated by Robert Merton, Stanley Milgram and Erving Goffman, using them as reference points to analyze a contemporary case of obedience dilemma that is the trial of the doctors and nurses accused of the death of a psychiatric patient (Franco Mastrogiovanni) who died in 2009 during a compulsory medical treatment reconstructed through documentary analysis of the sentences issued by the three orders of judgment. [Publisher's text].