Medicine meets Narration: how our lives become stories

Communication plays a decisive role for health as we are all experiencing, with some dramatic features, in times of pandemics.

Learn sign language to help a deaf patient during hospitalization for Covid-19 infection, tell in a book how the outbreak of the disease changes life, use the internet and new technologies to improve the medical relationship- patient are some of the stories that can testify and that will be deepened by the guests invited by the Alumni Association of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart on Wednesday 7 April at 6.00 pm for the webinar "Medicine meets Narration: how our lives become stories".

In the fifth round of the “Alumni Global Talks” cycle, scheduled for tomorrow, will be Francesca Mannocchi, journalist and author of the book “White is the color of damage”;

Cristina Cenci, anthropologist and founder of the Center for Digital Health Humanities, Roberto Persiani, associate professor of General Surgery at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart;

Marco D'Angelo, doctor in specialist training at the School of Internal Medicine of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.

The meeting will be moderated by Annalisa Cuzzocrea, a journalist for Repubblica.

The live webinar will be streamed on the website of the Ansa news agency, media partner for the series of meetings, and on all the social networks of the University and the “Ludovico Necchi” Association.