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A compelling story that unfolds over the centuries marking some of the milestones in human history and scientific progress, deserves to be reconstructed and, why not, narrated as if it were a novel.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n It is the story of the discovery and evolution of medicines, to which Prof. Luciano Caprino has dedicated the volume "The drug 7000 years of history" (Armando Editore, 2011 \u2013 prefaces by Prof. Sergio Pecorelli and Prof. Guido Rasi) promoted by AIFA and presented in recent days in Rome at the Nobile Collegio Chimico Farmaceutico. <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n It is \u2013 as observed by the participants \u2013 the first bilingual work (Italian\/English) which systematically traces the evolution of drugs and pharmacology from its origins to the present day, with an open window on the challenges of the future.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The precious volume, 287 pages enriched by a rich bibliography and a useful analytical index but, above all, by anecdotes and suggestive illustrations, was inaugurated by the Director General of AIFA, Prof. Luca Pani.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n In thanking the author, Prof. Pani underlined the importance of the contribution that AIFA wanted to deliver to Pharmacology, to sector operators and, more generally, to all those who love the history of man and scientific progress.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n "Those who do not remember their past are doomed to repeat it," said Prof. Pani, quoting Critical Rationalist writer and philosopher George Santayana. \u00abWorks like this \u2013 added the Director General of AIFA \u2013 remind us that our knowledge has its roots in human history, and that certain values, such as solidarity and assistance to the sick, are part of an ancient and inescapable baggage that<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Una vicenda avvincente che si snoda nei secoli segnando alcune delle tappe fondamentali della storia dell’uomo e del progresso scientifico, merita di essere ricostruita e, perché no, narrata come fosse un romanzo. È la storia della scoperta e dell’evoluzione dei medicinali, cui il Prof. Luciano Caprino ha dedicato il volume "Il Farmaco 7000 …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fedaiisf-archivio-storico"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}