“The objective of creating this work is to simplify the history of medicine: in fact, to be able to know its history, dozens and dozens of volumes would be needed. The most complex part for me was creating a synthesis of the most important concepts and concepts that can attract the attention of medical students and beyond.” This is what was stated by Michele Covelli, professor at the Lum ‘Giuseppe Degennaro’ university and author of the book ‘History of medicine and dentistry’, presented today in Rome, in the Sala Caduti di Nassirya of the Senate, on the proposal of the senator of Brothers of Italy, Filippo Melchiorre.
“The history of medicine in my book – explains the author – starts from Ancient Egypt, as I believe that they are an extremely intelligent people, from which many ideas, such as specializations, originated. In fact, they were the first historical people to already boast the first medical specializations. The narrative reaches up to today and, consequently, skipping the various Greek philosophers, who had an abstract concept of disease, my intent was to create a union and simplify the most important steps that led us to today’s medicine ”.
The text, an ‘instrumentum laboris’ that accompanies not only students but also anyone with an interest in knowledge of the subject, “can be easily used even by non-experts – underlines Covelli – It is necessary for the student to have a perception of knowledge and understand what the salient periods in the history of medicine are. From what I could perceive, because we started the history of medicine lessons yesterday – he concludes – the students really appreciated understanding, in summary, the salient points of the first approach to medicine. medicine”.
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