Libriabano returns - Words of Authors, a series of meetings with writers, journalists, and protagonists of the Italian cultural scene at the Thermal Forum.
Meeting with Silvia Bencivelli and Dario Vergassola for the presentation of the book "Eroica, folle e visionaria".
Silvia Bencivelli writes with an ironic and light pen, touching on key topics of the relationship between medicine, society, and power, engaging the reader in some of the most incredible stories of medicine, from the seventeenth century to the present day. We will meet doctors who intentionally let themselves be bitten by ticks and mosquitoes to prove the origin of a disease, reckless inventors of revolutionary surgical techniques, daring testers of unknown substances, and even surgeons who operate on themselves, to gain publicity or because they lack alternatives. These are stories that certainly do not leave one indifferent, and together they outline a history
of medicine that is decidedly different from what is generally told.
Free entry until seats are filled.
