Presentato a Roma il libro ‘Storia della medicina e dell’odontoiatria’ di Michele Covelli
(Adnkronos) - Si è svolto a Roma il convegno di presentazione del libro ‘Storia della medicina e dell’odontoiatria’ di Michele Covelli, docente dell'università Lum “Giuseppe Degennaro”, organizzato su proposta del senatore Filippo Melchiorre. Un testo che non ha la presunzione di essere un sostituto ai libri di medicina, ma un “instrumentum laboris” che accompagni non solo gli studenti ma anche chiunque abbia un interesse alla conoscenza della materia.
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00:00Representing a practical and effective synthesis of the history of medicine and odontology is the goal of the book
00:12History of Medicine and Odontology, curated by Michele Covelli, a professor at the University of Rome, Giuseppe De Gennaro,
00:19presented in Rome at the Nasseri Hall of the Senate of the Republic.
00:24The text has no presumption of being a substitute for the books of medicine, but it wants to be an instrumentum laboris
00:31that accompanies not only students, but also anyone who has an interest in the knowledge of the matter.
00:37The most complicated and complex part was to create a synthesis of the most important concepts
00:43and concepts that the student of medicine, and not only, can draw and catalyze his or her attention.
00:50So, from ancient Egypt, because it was the first historical people where they already had the first medical specializations,
00:57up to the present times, it is a text that can be easily opened even to non-laborers.
01:04Therefore, to be able to make it readable, the student must have a perception of knowledge
01:12and understand what were the rising periods.
01:16So, I must say that what I could perceive, also because we started just yesterday the lessons of History of Medicine,
01:23they appreciated a lot the understanding, in summary, the rising points of what was the first approach of medicine.
01:32To deal with the scientific method born in universities, the future challenges of improving the skills required in the medical profession
01:41it is essential to start from the History of Medicine.
01:44I believe that on this we continue with our goal, with the development of the degree course in Odontology and Dental Prosthesis,
01:52that we recently started, with all the activities in terms of the health professions that we are carrying out,
01:59precisely in order to think about a link between research, the world, also that of businesses and, clearly, of health institutions,
02:10and also, clearly, the ability to involve more and more in a massive way those that are activities of scientific dissemination in relation to progress.
02:20So, today's goal is a bit like this, that is, to think in a very open way what are the changes in action,
02:27also starting from History and looking to the future.
02:30To open the works, Senator Filippo Melchiorre, who has highlighted the importance of the medical profession
02:36and the attention placed by the current government towards the health professions.
02:41The government has done many things. For example, in September, it issued a decree that punishes those who commit aggression,
02:49those who damage the health and social structures. It has increased, how to say, the resources.
02:55It has thought about the integrated home assistance, it has thought about community houses, it has thought about giving more resources to the regions.
03:03The fact is that some regions often, how to say, do not have adequate organizational models
03:09and, therefore, everything that happens, unfortunately, does not depend on the central government, but depends on how the resources are used.
03:15Today, through the presentation of this text, which can be used by both aspiring doctors and doctors to, how to say,
03:23to regenerate their principles, what is concerned with the attention of doctors,
03:30we are talking about it to build up the pillars in this mosaic of the centrality of the doctor, but also, I say, of the patient, of the person.