Science in Rome

Science, Communication and Common Sense 7 Th Summer School – Rome

The problem I would like to address focus on the role of communication within scientific communities. More specifically I intend to examine at what extent some parallelism can be observed between the construction of scientific representations and their subsequent transformation in social representations. I will try to examine the continuity as well as the discontinuity between science and commo...

Introduction. The Rome Foundation and Rome III.

It is a great pleasure to introduce the commentaries by Drs Kellow and Quigley on the pros and cons of the new Rome III criteria. Perhaps most of the readership is only familiar with these published diagnostic criteria. However, the Rome Foundation has a larger mission and directive to move the field of functional gastrointestinal (GI) and motility disorders forward through research and educati...

Exhibiting in Rome

When in Rome, reform

It was a hot autumn in Italy last year, and things show little sign of cooling down over the winter, at least, not politically. The final months of 2008 saw a wave of protests throughout Italy that were triggered by a government decree altering the procedures used to select academic staff. The decree, issued by Mariastella Gelmini, Italy’s Minister for Education, University and Research, is onl...

Être médecin à Rome

controllers were not alone in seeking to end such traditional ideas and practices. Women were informed by magistrates and medical men that life did exist before quickening and that any interference-not that just carried out by a third party with a sharp instrument-could be described as an attempt at abortion. But by the 1920s lawyers and doctors were expressing their own unhappiness with the 18...