The open body: a “new” book

At the beginning of the ‘300, Mondino de’ Liuzzi, a physician from Bologna, was the first anatomist who started again the dissection of human body neglected from the III century. He hinted at the existence of the conflict between book and body, between “auctoritas” and the direct observation of the human body . The Mondino’s masterwork “Anothomia” remained the key book up to the middle of the sixth century, when Andrea Vesalio wrote “De Umani Corporis Fabrica,” in which the body (cadaver) eventually became the main player of the book . During the years, the technologic evolution led to the wrong conviction that dissection could be dismissed, albeit, still in our day, doctors in training feel the need to associate the direct experience on the cadaver with the very valuable digital means and the modern imaging technologies even in 3D. Thinking to Anatomy as an already fully well known discipline is a mistake. The most advanced methodologies for surgical access, namely the minimally invasive surgery, require the evolution of the traditional anatomical knowledge. The Human Anatomy Institute of the University of Bologna, among the first in Italy, has recognized this need. Thanks to the generosity of the people enrolled in the Body donation programme for research and teaching, our Institute allows medical students to practice dissection on cadavers, beginning as Freshman, then Sophomore, Junior and Senior. The sharing of Bologna’s experience could be the chance to think about the perspectives offered by the dissection of the corpse: a wide range of possibilities spanning from research projects to advanced training courses in collaboration with clinicians and surgeons belonging to different branches. Moreover the practice of corpse dissection is extremely important for the recruitment of young graduates in Medicine which, by means of the experience vested acting as “tutor of anatomy”, acquire interest in the field of research of morphological sciences, spanning from macroscopic up to the cellular and molecular level. Hic mors gaudet succurrere vitae: the motto, reported in dissection room of most of the Italian anatomical institutes, represents the synthesis of the experience of an ancient discipline which, nowadays , has the chance to rewrite a new chapter dedicated to modern frontiers of scientific research and medical education

Utopia al femminile: eutopie, distopie e fantasie compensatorie

Chi cerca di realizzare il paradiso interra, sta in effetti preparando per gli altriun molto rispettabile inferno. (Paul Claudel) Nel recensire, su «The London Review of Books», un’opera di Gregory Claeys sull’Utopia (1997), Terry Eagleton (1997: 6-7) esordisce dicendo che «Utopia is the most self-undermining of literary forms» in quanto «all utopian writing is also dystopian», perché contiene una critica di situazioni negative esistenti, che comunque tende a riprodurre (a cominciare, nota se..

The open body: a \u201cnew\u201d book

At the beginning of the ‘300, Mondino de’ Liuzzi, a physician from Bologna, was the first anatomist who started again the dissection of human body neglected from the III century. He hinted at the existence of the conflict between book and body, between “auctoritas” and the direct observation of the human body . The Mondino’s masterwork “Anothomia” remained the key book up to the middle of the sixth century, when Andrea Vesalio wrote “De Umani Corporis Fabrica,” in which the body (cadaver) eventually became the main player of the book . During the years, the technologic evolution led to the wrong conviction that dissection could be dismissed, albeit, still in our day, doctors in training feel the need to associate the direct experience on the cadaver with the very valuable digital means and the modern imaging technologies even in 3D. Thinking to Anatomy as an already fully well known discipline is a mistake. The most advanced methodologies for surgical access, namely the minimally invasive surgery, require the evolution of the traditional anatomical knowledge. The Human Anatomy Institute of the University of Bologna, among the first in Italy, has recognized this need. Thanks to the generosity of the people enrolled in the Body donation programme for research and teaching, our Institute allows medical students to practice dissection on cadavers, beginning as Freshman, then Sophomore, Junior and Senior. The sharing of Bologna’s experience could be the chance to think about the perspectives offered by the dissection of the corpse: a wide range of possibilities spanning from research projects to advanced training courses in collaboration with clinicians and surgeons belonging to different branches. Moreover the practice of corpse dissection is extremely important for the recruitment of young graduates in Medicine which, by means of the experience vested acting as “tutor of anatomy”, acquire interest in the field of research of morphological sciences, spanning from macroscopic up to the cellular and molecular level. Hic mors gaudet succurrere vitae: the motto, reported in dissection room of most of the Italian anatomical institutes, represents the synthesis of the experience of an ancient discipline which, nowadays , has the chance to rewrite a new chapter dedicated to modern frontiers of scientific research and medical education

C'era una volta la letteratura inglese. Da Lodge alla Globish literature

Curatela dell'intero numero monografico della rivista e un saggio all'interno della stessa. Codice ISSN: 1972-7321

Il fascino inquieto dell'utopia

Marialuisa Bignami, cui questo volume è dedicato, è una tra le più illustri studiose dell’utopia letteraria in Italia. In dialogo con la sua opera critica, il volume discute origini ed esiti del concetto di utopia nel panorama letterario e sociale occidentale, in particolare anglosassone. La riflessione prende le mosse da un’elaborazione di stampo millenarista del pensiero utopico, per proseguire nell’indagine dei suoi esiti letterari tardorinascimentali, settecenteschi e anche coloniali; si approda infine alle utopie moderne, postmoderne e femministe del nostro tempo, senza tralasciare gli esiti dell’immaginario utopico nella cultura di massa. L’utopia, un po’ come il romanticismo, sembra essere una necessità della cultura occidentale, una categoria dello spirito, che può essere reinterpretata, negata, persino vilipesa, ma non abbandonata. I percorsi attraverso le mutazioni spazio-temporali dell’utopia raccolti in questo volume sono ispirati ad approcci critici diversi e sono trasversali a più ambiti di ricerca; la ricchezza del dibattito invita a proseguire l’indagine sui volti molteplici del genere utopico, anche attraverso l’esplorazione di nuove interazioni e di nuovi linguaggi

L’investigatore allo specchio: un approccio transdisciplinare al poliziesco

Nato con una duplice finalità, ermeneutica e didattica, "L’investigatore allo specchio: un approccio transdisciplinare al poliziesco" offre una riflessione seria e al contempo appassionata sulla letteratura poliziesca e criminale. Sintetizzando il rigore del discorso scientifico con la curiosità (e la connivenza) tipica del lettore sedotto, studiosi provenienti da varie aree disciplinari analizzano aspetti complementari di questo genere dalle molteplici articolazioni interne, spostandosi dal noir cinematografico al corpo nella letteratura sensazionale e nell'antropologia criminale dell'Ottocento, dalle performances investigative dei murder mystery weekends al paesaggio sonoro e alla semiotica della detection. Il volume traccia un originale percorso multidisciplinare e intermediale attraverso approcci critici, sottogeneri e rimediazioni dell’indagine poliziesca, muovendosi dai crimini ambientati in epoca classica o medievale fino alle inchieste medico-legali popolarizzate dal piccolo schermo, sul filo di una riflessione intorno alla scrittura gialla come strumento di critica e lettura della società