From monastic knowledge to the healthcare of the future
An important moment of discussion and reflection entitled “Medicine and Spirituality: from monastic care to the healthcare of the future” promoted by the Anci Lazio Council of Women Administrators.
A meeting that intertwined history, ethics, innovation and gender medicine, bringing monastic knowledge - the roots of modern medicine - into dialogue with the new challenges of future healthcare: between spirituality, community and wellbeing. During the works, enriched by institutional contributions from the President of the Health and Social Services Commission of the Lazio Region Alessia Savo and from the Member of the Equal Opportunities Commission Eleonora Mattia, and testimonies from the territory, including Don Fabrizio Messina Cicchetti, director of the State Library of Santa Scolastica, the Director Antonio Orlandi of the Asl district, the Councillor of Agosta and referent of the specialist and primary care area Asl Roma 5 Tamara Stazi, as well as the Mayor Deniele Mioni representing Anci Lazio, some shared and strongly felt points emerged:
🔹 Recognising gender medicine as a tool for equity and quality in health services;
🔹 Humanising care, restoring centrality to the person in his or her physical, psychological and relational dimensions;
🔹 Enhancing the role of local administrations, protagonists of participatory, territorial and sustainable health models;
🔹 Driving technological innovation with ethics, so that technology - even artificial intelligence - remains at the service of the individual and not of profit;
🔹 Promoting women's leadership as an inclusive, empathic and generative strategic resource.
The day ended with a visit to the Sacro Speco of St Benedict and the guest quarters of the Monastery of St Scholastica, symbols of a tradition in which faith, knowledge and care have intertwined to give rise to modern medicine.
A shared vision guided the meeting:
health is a common good and a collective responsibility, based on proximity, freedom of choice and community value.
A healthcare of the future that combines tradition and innovation, values and responsibility, care and freedom - always putting the person, the family and the community at the centre.