XXIII SPOLETOSCIENZA

Twenty-third edition for Spoletoscienza, the original science workshop conceived and curated from Sigma-Tau Foundation in the Festival dei Due Mondi Spoleto area.

THEATRICAL READINGS

Saturday, July 2 and Saturday, July 9, 2011

FRAU HALL AT 11

"Journey to the End of Céline."

theatrical readings to by Francesco E. Negro

with Massimo Popolizio

Why Céline? First, because this year marks the 50th anniversary of his death in 1961. Second, Céline at the XXIII Spoletoscienza organized from Sigma-Tau Foundation, because more than any other, he represents the dual role of doctor and patient. Shadow and its recognition. Soul and light. It is precisely from this activity of his as a doctor of the poor, who are unable to pay him, that Céline realizes that poverty itself is a disease, terrible and without a cure. By continuing to to visit without getting paid he will end up falling ill with that disease himself.

The play "Journey to the End of Céline," based from on a book by Francesco E. Negro, aims to be as ambiguous as Céline is ambiguous. Indeed, double or rather - that double that is in each of us. Doctor and sick person. Dr. Céline, the doctor of style who would like to cure a language, according to him, sick. Disease that expands, affecting all of society. Also curable by style? Subject and object, doctor and medicine identify themselves by exchanging roles, or at least, they are the cause of each other.

It goes against the world obsessed with progress and power. The world that has become a chronic disease. With his "stylistic medicine" he prescribes shock therapy. Violent, literary. Use of a speech suspended between delirium and speech. Delirium, possible replacement of a "death to credit." Writing is anti-literature, exorcising the end. It allows a glimpse of the hope of healing. Obtainable only if man will be able to get out of the "herd" and become an "individual" again, able to escape the anonymity where society has relegated him.

These theatrical readings with the stage presence of actor Massimo Popolizio are meant to be an invitation to try to understand - perfectly in theme with "Geographies of Health." Which then, as always, is to try to understand oneself. To look into the abyss into which one can sink and lose.

Francesco Eugenio Negro (Rome, 1944), physician and publicist, author of several texts on medicine, including Il paziente, il medico e l´omeopatia (Palombi, 1989); L´uomo tra salute e malattia (Borla, 1992) with Antonio De Filippo; Ho visitato Chopin (FrancoAngeli, 1994); Il medico di Van Gogh. The importance of the doctor-patient relationship (FrancoAngeli, 1998); Waiting for Hippocrates. Toward Total Medicine (FrancoAngeli, 2000); Céline, Physician and the Sick (FrancoAngeli, 2000). He writes in newspapers and participates to numerous television broadcasts.

CONFERENCES

The massive migration flows we are witnessing today require the physician to know the ways in which the genetic heritage of those who come from from territories far from our own is expressed in the new environment. It is therefore necessary to investigate the complex relationship between genes, metabolisms, food and environment, learning to how these genotypes express disease and aging. This is the only way to meet the challenge of truly personalized medicine, which ultimately ends up affecting us all.

An original journey of ideas marked from meetings with leading men of science to refine, even in this area, "the tools for thinking."

Sunday, July 3

CLOISTER OF SAN NICOLÒ

"Geographies of Health"

coordinate

Antonio Guerci

Professor of Anthropology and Ethnomedicine, University of Genoa

Gabriel Beccarla

Editor of the Tuttoscienze supplement of La Stampa

GLOBAL HEALTH: AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH

Mark Hanson Professor of Cardiovascular Science, Inst. of Developmental Sciences, Univ. of Southampton, UK

EMERGENCE AND RE-EMERGENCE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES: A GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE

Fabrizio Pregliasco Department of Public Health, Microbiology and Virology, University of Milan

THE UNNATURAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE

Sir Michael Marmot Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health University College, London

MALARIA: A HISTORIC SOCIAL KILLER

David Modiano Professor of Parasitology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome

Sunday, July 10

CLOISTER OF SAN NICOLÒ

"The challenge of personalized medicine."

coordinate

Gilberto Corbellini

Professor of History of Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome

Armando Massarenti Director of the

Sunday of Il Sole 24Ore

THE EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS OF GENETIC DIVERSITY AND IDENTITY IN HUMANS

Guido Barbujani Department of Biology and Evolution, University of Ferrara

METABOLOMICS AND THE ADVENT OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE

Ben Van Ommen Faculty of Science, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Analytical BioSciences

NUTRIGENOMICS: PERSONALIZED NUTRITION AND HEALTH

James Kaput Director, Division of Personalized Nutrition and Medicine FDA, National Center for Toxicological Research Jefferson, AR, USA

HOW TO UNRAVEL THE COMPLEXITY OF MULTIFACTORIAL DISEASES: HYPERTENSION

Giuseppe Bianchi Professor Emeritus, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy

EXHIBIT

from friday June 25 to Sunday, July 10

PALAZZO COLLICOLA

"The Universe to at your fingertips: interactive experiences for thinking."

in collaboration with the National Institute of Nuclear Physics - INFN

Very often Nature, the world we perceive and what scientific research reveals to the human mind, is narrated as anopera of art. An immeasurable, complex and mind-blowing opera of art from show but above all bring to life.

With this spirit, the Museum of Palazzo Collicola to Spoleto hosts the interactive installations that Sigma-Tau Foundation, in collaboration with the National Institute of Nuclear Physics - INFN will bring to the public′s attention. An authentic and exciting journey into Physics and Cosmology.

Extensive documentation will be given during the exhibition for the purpose of illustrating the characters, meaning and motivations of each installation, from the suggestive names such as"curved space and time," "make collisions,""unveil the invisible,""the expansion of the universe," and"the cosmic shower."

The meetings of the XXIII Spoletoscienza - Geographies of Health can be followed via live streaming on Sunday, July 3 and Sunday , July 10 , 2011 - from at 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. - at the following web address >www.fondazionesigmatau.it/streaming.htmto>

In the coming weeks, footage
will still be made available at to >www.fondazionesigmatau.itto>

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