The Benevento’s Doctor: from medicine to holiness secular

• Main Author: Alberto Enrique D’OTTAVIO
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2016-04-01
• Series: Revista de Medicina y Cine / Journal of Medicine and Movies
• Subjects: nápoles; medicina; valores; biografía
• Online Access: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/medicina_y_cine/article/view/13573

<p>This miniseries treating on the Benevento’s physician Giuseppe Moscati, barely known in Latin America, though simple from a screen standpoint, may become highly enlightening for students in relation with their unavoidable acquisition of key values for medical practice. Moreover, in the context of a postmodern and technologic society seeming having misplaced or lost those values.<br />Going by from his graduation during 1903 to his death, occurred in 1927, the film, exceeding religious beliefs and the professional future conceived by medical students, melodramatically sets out a touching behavioral contrast through the mixture of real and fictional events. Thus, the prepared spectator may decide to face his/her professional and quotidian life with principles which, in the end, may result improving for the whole society.</p>