Medicine and law: medical advice in the Court

The theme of the relationship between Medicine and Law is at the center of the national conference "Medical advice in court" organized by the Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences of the University of Insubria and by the Giovanni Valcavi Foundation for the University of 'Insubria and chaired by professors Mario Tavani and Giusepe Armocida.

The first day of work, scheduled for Friday 22 January from 2.30 pm at Spazio Lavit in via G. Uberti 42, will see contributions from a historical perspective on particular aspects of medical-forensic activities. For the occasion, the conference room of the Lavit Space will host an exhibition of works from the Art Therapy Laboratory of the Psychiatry of Verbano, directed by Dr. Isidoro Cioffi, with works by artists from the Lavit Gallery.

The second session, scheduled for Saturday 23 January, starting at 8.30, includes readings on the relationship between science and law, between the forensic exercise of bio-medical sciences and health disciplines in general and the quality of scientific data and technologies. available introduced in the process, as well as between the quality of the experts in the bio-medical-forensic disciplines, the criteria chosen by the operators of the law and the guarantees of justice.

The congress will end with a round table, in which the topics of the day will be discussed by jurists and medico-legal experts.

The congress is sponsored by the Italian Union of Specialists in Forensic Medicine and Insurance; Lombard Society of Forensic Medicine; Insubric Medical-Legal Association; Ambrosian Medical-Legal Association; Varese Bar Association; Italian Society of the History of Medicine; In collaboration with the Municipality of Varese.

Participation is free and Training Credits from the Varese Bar Association are granted.

Friday 22 January Spazio Lavit via G. Uberti 42 - First session

2.30pm-3pm
Greetings from the Rector and the Director of the Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences of the University of Insubria

15.00-17.30
Moderators: Mario Picozzi, Cesare Garberi

Introductory reading
Mario Conetti, 'Medici dicebant non moriturum': doctors, lawyers and fatal wounds in the thirteenth century

Communications
Melania Borgo, Paola Badino, Mittermaier and Gandolfi (1862): legal medicine "reviewed" by a jurist
Diego Dalla Gasperina, Experts and medical expertise in the criminal trials of the nineteenth century in Varese
Barbara Pezzoni, Ilaria Gorini, First steps of psychiatric examinations: Camillo Platner
Marta Licata, Osteoarchaeology and Forensic Archeology
Federica Borromeo, Emerging issues in forensic psycho-pathology
Davide Torri, Neuroscience applied to forensic medicine: past and future
Fabrizia Bianchi, Fabrizio Munaro, Current trends in personality psychodiagnostics
Gaetana S. Rigo, Laboratory diagnostics in directing and verifying judgment in the forensic field: a significant haematological case by Leone Lattes (1925)
Omar Ferrario, "The P case". Medico-legal issues on the subject of official and biased consultancy on a legal accident case

Saturday 23 January
Culture Palace - Montanari Room - Via dei Bersaglieri - Second session

8.30 am
Greetings from the President of the Court of Varese and the President of the Giovanni Valcavi Foundation for the University of Insubria

9.00-11.00
Moderators: avv. Sergio Martelli, President of the Varese Bar Association and prof. Barbara Pozzo, Director of the Department of Law and Economics of the University of Insubria
Interventions
Riccardo Zoja (Milan), On the relationship between medicine and law
Mario Tavani (Varese), Bio-medicine in the trial Gian Aristide Norelli (Florence), Medical-legal experts and technical consultants: what role?

Interval
11.30-13.00
Round table on congress topics
Moderator: Raffaele Zinno, National Secretary of the Italian Union of Specialists in Forensic Medicine and Insurance and Fabrizio Busignani, lawyer. Supreme Court of Varese
Participants: dr. Orazio Muscato, lawyer Mauro Pagani, lawyer Elisabetta Brusa, prof. Chiara Perini, prof. Stefano Marcolini, prof. Paolo Danesino, dr. Stefania Zeroli

1.15 pm
Closing of the works