The idea of solidarity is in vogue, especially since the eruption of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the term “solidarity,” as used in nursing, is imprecise and vague, lacking clear definition and connoting a variety of general meanings. Based on the original meaning of “solidarity” in ancient Roman law, this article captures the archetypical idea of solidarity from a historical and interdisciplinary perspective. This archetypical or primary meaning comes before the development of any other meanings of the word, and it is therefore authentic and genuine because it does not derive from something else. After establishing the archetypical meaning of solidarity, the article translates this meaning into the area of nursing and demonstrates a deep connectivity between healthcare and solidarity. The second part of the article offers and develops a new definition of nursing solidarity as the responsibility for the healthcare of a person (unit) shared as a whole (entirety) by that person and a nurse or a nursing team (plurality). This new definition has some implications for nursing practice and education, since the definition emphasizes the idea that solidarity helps to (a) foster respect and avoid discrimination, (b) promote cohesion in health communities, (c) increase individual responsibility and a spirit of service, (d) stimulate motivation, (e) improve communication, (f) create an engaging workplace, and (g) develop leadership.

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Reviewed: The School of Salamanca: A Case of Global Knowledge Production. Edited by Thomas Duve, José Luis Egío, and Christiane Birr. Leiden: Brill, 2021. Pp. 430. $172.00 (cloth); Open Access (digital). ISBN: 9789004449732. ¿Qué es la Escuela de Salamanca? [What is the School of Salamanca?] Edited by Simona Langella and Rafael Ramis-Barceló. Madrid, Porto: Sindéresis, 2021. Pp. 402. €30.00 (paper). ISBN: 9788418206610. A Companion to the Spanish Scholastics. Edited by Harald E. Braun, Erik De Bom, and Paolo Astorri. Leiden: Brill, 2022. Pp. 628. $275.00 (cloth); $283.00 (digital). ISBN: 9789004294417. Infidels and Empires in a New World Order: Early Modern Spanish Contributions to International Legal Thought. By David M. Lantigua. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 370. $110.00 (cloth); $39.99 (paper); $32.00 (digital). ISBN: 9781108498265. The history and influence of the School of Salamanca is attracting the attention of researchers from very different branches of knowledge and from a very wide variety of countries around the world. Broaching this subject invites one to reflect on both the unity of knowledge and the important role that theology plays in a secularized world. In this short essay, I discuss four recently published works that show the global scope of interest in Spanish Scholasticism in general and the School of Salamanca in particular. The first, The School of Salamanca: A Case of Global Knowledge, was edited by Thomas Duve, Jose Luis Egío, and Christiane Birr in coordination of the Max Planck Institute (2021). The second work, ¿Qué es la Escuela de Salamanca?, was edited by Simona Langella and Rafael Ramis-Barceló (2021). The third work is a recent thematic compendium on Spanish Scholasticism edited by Harald E. Braun, Erik De Bom, and Paolo Astorri (2022). Finally, I discuss David Lantigua’s monograph, Infidels and Empires in a New World Order: Early Modern Spanish Contributions to International Legal Thought (2020).

Este artículo analiza ciertas similitudes existentes en el tratamiento jurídico de la persona humana entre el derecho internacional público y el derecho canónico. Ambos sistemas jurídicos dotaron al concepto jurídico de persona de un sentido demasiado técnico y, por ende, reduccionista. Esta concepción reduccionista de la persona humana ha impedido el correcto desarrollo del derecho canónico y del derecho internacional. Pero de la misma manera que el derecho internacional de nuestros días ha rectificado su posición y se está convirtiendo paulatinamente en un derecho global, cada vez más centrado en la persona humana, así también el derecho canónico, para cumplir con su fin evangelizador, debe globalizarse. Esta globalización del derecho canónico consiste en priorizar la centralidad de toda persona humana creada a imagen de Dios y llamada a regenerarse en las aguas bautismales sobre la centralidad del cristiano ya regenerado por el bautismo.