The paths of well-being
Meetings to explore the topics of health and well-being 12 October 2017 – 10 May 2018
Eight meetings to reflect on the contradictions of the present, in search of well-being as a crossroads of many paths: economic/social, medical and spiritual. The meetings are introduced and moderated by Pino Donghi, an expert in science communication, who has organised cultural festivals and is the editor of the Medical Science Festival in Bologna.
Words of the heart
- Thursday 12 October 2017 at 18:00
With doctor **Claudio Cuccia**, we will analyse our desire to be cared for and reassured by the words of the ideal doctor in search of our well-being.
At the SPA: salus per aquam
- Thursday 9 November 2017 at 18:00
With historian **Annunziata Berrino**, we travel through the Italian tradition of spas as an expression of care but also of culture.
For pleasure
- Thursday 14 December 2017 at 18:00
With the sociologist **Rossella Ghigi** and with **Patrizia Magnani**, plastic surgeon, we discover what drives us to transform our body with scalpels.
Italian happiness
- Thursday 8 February 2018 at 18:00
The sociologist **Gabriella Turnaturi** shows us a prismatic scenario of our expectations between stereotypes and novelties.
This life
- Thursday 8 March 2018 at 18:00
The theologian **Vito Mancuso** helps us to understand the inseparable complementarity between matter and spirit for an 'ecology of the mind'.
Well-being at the table
- Thursday 5 April 2018 at 18:00
The psychologist **Nicoletta Cavazza** makes us reflect on the multiple functions of food, a barometer of our physical and mental well-being, on which we sometimes focus obsessively and maniacally.
Does love make you feel good?
- Thursday 10 May 2018 at 18:00
With psychologist **Grazia Attili**, we will discover that too much chocolate makes you fat, a new love doesn't, but the well-being and pleasure are the same (or almost!)'
