Sara Rubinelli - Publications at USI

Key publications

• Rubinelli S., Schulz P. (2006). Let me tell you why! When argumentation in doctor-patient interaction makes a difference. Argumentation 20 (3), 353-375.
• Rubinelli S. (2009). Ars Topica. The classical technique of constructing arguments. . Dordrecht/Cambridge: Springer.

Journal Articles (with peer-review)

• Rubinelli S.The medicalization of cyberspace. Body & Society.
• Rubinelli S., Schulz P. (2011). Special Issue on : Argumentation in the healthcare domain.. Argumentation (forthcoming)..
• Schulz P., Rubinelli S., Caiata Zufferey M., Hartung U. (2010). Coping with Chronic Lower Back Pain: Designing and Testing the Online Tool ONESELF. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 15(4), 625-645.
• Camerini L., Giacobazzi M., Boneschi M., Schulz P., Rubinelli S. (2010). Design and Implementation of a Web-based Tailored Gymnasium to Enhance Self-management of Fibromyalgia. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research, 21: 1-27.
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• Orizio G., Schulz P., Domenighini S., Rubinelli S. (2009). A cross-sectional study of online pharmacies characteristics. European Journal of Public Health.
• Schulz P., Rubinelli S. (2009). Internet-Enhanced Health Communication,. Social Semiotics, 20(1), 3-7..
• Schulz P., Rubinelli S., Hartung U. (2009). Meeting patients' demand for information on low back pain. Conceptual design of an interactive website.. Journal of Disability and Rehabilitation, 31 (25) 2118-2124..
• Schulz P., Rubinelli S. (2008). Arguing 'for' the patient. Strategic manoevering and institutional constraints in doctor-patient interaction.. Argumentation 22 (3), 423-432.
• Schulz P., Rubinelli S., Hartung U. (2007). An internet-based approach to enhance self-management of chronic low back pain in the Italian-speaking population of Switzerland: results from a pilot study. International Journal of Public Health 52 (5), 286-294.
• Rubinelli S. (2007). Comments on strategic maneuvering with dissociation. Argumentation 20, 489-493.
• Rubinelli S., Schulz P., Vago F. (2007). Designing and evaluation online communities to promote self-management of chronic low back pain. International Journal of Web-Based Communities, 4 (1), 80-97. .
• Mackay J., Schulz P., Rubinelli S., Pithers A. (2007). Online Patient Education and Risk assessment: Putting inherited breast cancer risk information into context using argumentation theory. Patient Education & Counseling 67(3), 261-266.
• Rubinelli S., Schulz P. (2006). Let me tell you why! When argumentation in doctor-patient interaction makes a difference. Argumentation 20 (3), 353-375.
• Rubinelli S. (2006). The rhetorical game: topoi and loci in action. Argumentation 20 (3), 253-272.
• Rubinelli S. (2006). Tobias Reinhardt: Marcus Tullius Cicero. Topica. The Classical Review. 55 (2), 514-516.
• Rubinelli S. (2006). ¿Ask your doctor¿. Argumentation in advertising of prescription medicaments. Studies in Communication Sciences. Special issue on Health literacy, 5 (2), 75-98.
• Rubinelli S. (2004). Images of disease in ancient Greek society. Culture and Text, Tomus XX, 147-158.
• Rubinelli S. (2003). Topoi e idia nella Retorica di Aristotele. Phronesis, XLVIII/3, 238-47.
• Rubinelli S. (2002). Problemas the topoi en Aristotéles: notas sobre una hipótesis diacrónica. Anuario Filosofico 35, 367-407.
• Rubinelli S. (2002). The invention of the young Cicero. Classical Quarterly, 52, 2, 612-615.

Books

• Rubinelli S., Camerini L., Schulz P. (2010). Comunicazione e salute. Milano: Apogeo.
• Rubinelli S. (2009). Ars Topica. The classical technique of constructing arguments. . Dordrecht/Cambridge: Springer.
• Cantoni L., Di Blas N., Rubinelli S., Tardini S. (2008). Pensare e comunicare. Milano: Apogeo.

Book Chapters

• Rubinelli S., Cantoni L. (2005). Semiotics of dance. In: K. Brown (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, Amsterdam: Elsevier, volume 3, 347-349.

Conference Proceedings

• Rubinelli S., Caiata Zufferey M., Schulz P., Camerini L. (2009). An Internet implemented model of health literacy to enhance self-management of chronic low back pain. Swiss Public Health Conference, Zürich (CH), August 27-28.
• Rubinelli S., Schulz P. (2009). Argumentation in Healthcare Domain. Communication, Medicine & Ethics, Cardiff 2009.
• Rubinelli S., Schulz P., Nakamoto K. (2009). Health Literacy and the Tailoring of Health Information. A Dialogue between Communication and (AI) Technology. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Fall Symposium Conference 2009.
• Rubinelli S., Camerini L., Giacobazzi M., Boneschi M., Schulz P. (2009). Online tailoring of physical exercise to enhance self-management of fibromyalgia. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.
• Orizio G., Rubinelli S., Schulz P., Domenighini S., Bressanelli M., Caimi L., Gelatti U. (2009). Persuasion Strategies of Online Pharmacies: How the Web Transforms Patients into Consumers. Conference Medicine 2.0, Toronto 2009.
• Gelatti U., Orizio G., Belotti C., Rubinelli S., Covolo L., Schulz P. (2009). What do Portals for Doctors Offer? A Qualitative Analysis of their Features for the Enrichment of Expert Knowledge. Medicine 2.0 Congress. Toronto, Canada, 17-18 September 2009.
• Caiata Zufferey M., Schulz P., Rubinelli S. (2008). 'My way of thinking about pain'. On the importance of lay-theories in enhancing self-management of chronic low back pain. Making sense of Health, Illness and Disease, 7th Global Conference, Oxford (UK), July 9-12.
• Rubinelli S., Schulz P., Paolini P. (2008). Argumentation in Good News Communication on Genetic Breast Cancer. The Experience of OPERA. PATRAS.
• Rubinelli S., Schulz P. (2008). Argumentation in Good News Communication on Genetic Breast Cancer. The experience of OPERA. CMNA 2008.
• Rubinelli S., Paolini P. (2008). Argumentation in good news communication on genetic breast cancer. Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Computational Models of natural arguments, Patras.
• Bolchini D., Rubinelli S., Paolini P. (2008). Design and evaluation challenges of health risk-assessment interactions. Proceedings of the CHI Workshop on Evaluating New in Healthcare.
• Rubinelli S., Orizio G., Schulz P., Domenighini S., Caimi L., Rosati C., Gelatti U. (2008). Just a click to get drugs: a more accessible health or threat to patients?. Paper presented at the Conference European Association for Communication and Healthcare (EACH), Oslo.
• Gelatti U., Orizio G., Domenighini S., Rosati C., Rubinelli S., Caimi L., Schulz P. (2008). Online pharmacies: innovation or threat to health? . European Journal of Public Health, Vol.18, Suppl.1: Health and Innovation in Europe, Lisbon, November 2008.
• Schulz P., Rubinelli S. (2008). Rhetoric and argumentation in interpersonal and mass health communication. Paper presented at the Conference European Association for Communication and Healthcare (EACH), Oslo.
• Martignone G., Domenighini S., Orizio G., Rubinelli S., Schulz P., Donato F., Caimi L., Gelatti U. (2008). Vendita online di test genetici Direct-to-consumer: quale impatto sulla Sanità Pubblica?. Congresso sulla Società Italiana di igiene, medicina preventiva e Sanità pubblica, Bari 2008.
• Orizio G., Schulz P., Rubinelli S., gelatti U. (2007). Advertising and selling prescription drugs on the internet. Proceedings of the 9th World Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies.
• Rubinelli S., Nakamoto K., Schulz P., Krishen A. (2007). Argumentation in Direct-to-consumer-Advertising of Pharmaceuticals: Logical Problems and Policy Issues. Association of Consumer Research, Menphis, USA, 2007.
• Rubinelli S., Bolchini D., Paolini P., Schulz P. (2007). Designing Tailored Arguments in Online Risk-Assessment Tools. Personalisation for e-Health 2007, Korfu 2007.
• Rubinelli S., Bolchini D., Paolini P. (2007). Designing tailored arguments in on-line risk assessment. In: F. Grasso, A. Cawsey, C. Paris, S. Quaglini, R. Wikinson, Personalisation for e-Health. 11th International Conference on User Modeling (UM 2007), Corfu, Greece, 25-29 June, 57-60. .
• Rubinelli S., Nakamoto K., Schulz P. (2007). Reading Direct-To-Consumer Advertising. A qualitative study from argumentation theory on its dialectical and rhetorical features. In: F.H. van Eemeren, J.A. Blair, C.A. Willard, B. Garssen (eds.), Proceedings of 6th ISSA Conference on Argumentation, Amsterdam 27-30 June 2006, volume II, 1211-1217.
• Schulz P., Rubinelli S. (2006). Healthy arguments for literacy in health. Technical report of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): Spring Symposium on Argumentation for Consumers of Healthcare, Stanford, 86-95.
• Rubinelli S., Schulz P., Vago F. (2006). My friend ONESELF! Doctors and patients on the web to enhance self-management of chronic low back pain. Proceeding of the IADIS International Conference- Web Based Communities, San Sebastian 2006.

Journal Articles (without peer-review)

• Rubinelli S., Caiata Zufferey M., Schulz P. (2009). Enhancing self-management of chronic low back pain. Role of a patient-centred website. Asian Hospital & Healthcare Management, 18, 74-76.
• Schulz P., Caiata Zufferey M., Rubinelli S. (2009). Oneself - Hilfe aus dem Internet bei chronischen Rückenschmerzen / Internet au secours des maux de dos chroniques. Physioaktive, 5, 17-22.
• Orizio G., Schulz P., Domenighini S., Bressanelli M., Rubinelli S., Caimi L., Gelatti U. (2009). Online consultations in cyberpharmacies: completeness and patient safety. Telemedicine Journal and e-Health, 15 (10), 1022-25.
• Schulz P., Rubinelli S., Caiata Zufferey M. (2009). Onlineberatung bei Rückenschmerzen / Conseils online dans les lombalgies. Swiss Medical Forum, 9(30-31), 529-531.
• Schulz P., Rubinelli S., Caiata Zufferey M. (2006). ONESELF: un sito internet sul mal di schiena. La voce della Lega ticinese per la lotta contro il reumatismo, 33, 6-8.

Working papers

• Schulz P., Rubinelli S., Caiata Zufferey M. (2008). Using on-Line Strategies to Enhance Information and Social Support for Self-Management of Chronic Low Back Pain. Research report adressed to the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Other publications

• Rubinelli S., Schulz P., Hartung U. (2010). "Your risk is low, because...": Argument-driven online genetic counselling.. Argument & Computation, 1 (3) 199-214..
• Rubinelli S., Schulz P., Nakamoto K. (2009). "Letting the patient be a patient". Health Literacy beyond knowledge and behavior. International Journal of Public Health, 54 (5), 307-311.
• Schulz P., Rubinelli S. (2009). Internet-Enhanced Health Communication. Social Semiotics, 20(1), 3-7..
• Schulz P., Rubinelli S., Mariotti G., Keller N. (2009). Meeting patients' demand for information on low back pain. Conceptual design and rationale of the interactive website ONESELF.. Journal of Disability and Rehabilitation (in press)..
• Rubinelli S., Nakamoto K., Schulz P., de Saussure L. (2007). What are we to think about consumer advertising? A case-study in the field of misinterpreted argumentation. Studies in Communication Sciences, 6 (2) 337-348.
• Rubinelli S., Schulz P. (2006). Let me tell you why! When argumentation in doctor-patient interaction makes a difference.. Argumentation, 20: 353-375.

Conferences

• Giacobazzi M., Camerini L., Rubinelli S., Boneschi M., Schulz P. (2009). Design and Implementation of a Web-based Tailored Gymnasium to Enhance Self-management of Fibromyalgia. Medicine 2.0.
• Caiata Zufferey M., Schulz P., Rubinelli S. (2008). Self-management of chronic low back pain. A qualitative study of the impact of a patient-centered website (ONESELF). International Conference in Communication in Health Care (EACH), Oslo.
• Schulz P., Camerini L., Boneschi M., Caiata Zufferey M., Rubinelli S., Giacobazzi M. (2008). Using online strategies to enhance information and social support for self-management of chronic low back pain and fibromyalgia syndrome. Gemeinsamer Kongress SGR/SGPMR Symposium Health Professionals in Rheumatology.
• Schulz P., Rubinelli S., Caiata Zufferey M. (2006). Tailored web-based information to enhance self-management of chronic low back pain. International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (EACH), Basel.