After the institutional greetings, Prof. Silvia Barile, teacher of foreign languages at the Baldassarre School, will dialogue with the Author.
The book recounts many of those “unique and rare” cases that have punctuated the professional life of one of the references of Apulian veterinary medicine, from studies on Leishmaniasis, to the use of stem cells, from Pet Therapy (of which he is one of the pioneers in Italy) to ozone therapy. It also tells the professional story of Dr. Smaldone and that of his sporting passion, which led him to race alongside Pietro Mennea, to the point of describing the evolution of society itself starting from the different welcome shown towards animals, confirming that the veterinary profession is capable of going beyond the simple boundaries of work activity and involves the lives of people and communities.
The book takes its title from the professional oath of veterinary doctors, presented for the first time in April 2008 on the occasion of the FNOVI National Council in Naples and subsequently approved and became an integral part of the Terrasini Code of Ethics (12 June 2011).
The Oath is inspired by the figure of Aristotle, the philosopher to whom tradition claims the first medical notions relating to animals can be traced back and in fact the origins of Veterinary Medicine, which gave research and natural sciences equal dignity with respect to social and ethical, underlining how everything in this world is organically connected.
Not only a veterinary doctor, but also a journalist, Dr. Smaldone, author of the book, has edited columns for many local and national press outlets, such as that of “Il veterinary”, published for over 30 years in the “Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno” and the more prestigious one in the ENCI magazine “I our dogs”, for over 5 years. For a long period, he held a radio program on animals for Rai 3.
