- Paola Binetti
Paola Binetti (born
march 29 ,1943 ) is an Italian Senator who belongs to the Democratic Party.Biography
Binetti was born in
Rome . She graduated in medicine and surgery in 1967 at theUniversità del Sacro Cuore in Rome, after studying at theUniversity of Navarra , Spain.She is a specialist in
clinical psychology and infant neuropsychiatry.From 1972 to 1975, she worked in a center which took care of teenagers in Milan (Associazione FAES - Famiglia e Società), which provided services of advice to parents.
She was Director of the Educational and for research purposes Didactic Department at the University Biomedical Campus of Rome. She was past President of the Committee Science & Life (Comitato Scienza & Vita) for law 40 and President of the Italian Society of pedagogia doctor. She was Vice president of the Italian Society of medical computer science . She is also member of various institutions, among which the National Committee of Bioethics.
Binetti has written more than 200 articles and numerous volumes in the field of the Medical Education.
Since 1991, she has been working at the Biomedical Campus of Rome, guiding the developments of medical faculty.
On
March 3 2007 , during a show on theLa7 channel, Binetti said that gays and lesbians need medical care, maintaining thathomosexuality is an illness.She is a
numerary member ofOpus Dei and has repeatedly asserted that she wears acilice . [Citation|last=Cossu|first=Cristina|newspaper=Il Sardegna|date=February 21 ,2007 |year=2007|month=February|title=La crisi della famiglia si aggrava con i "DiCo"]External links
* [http://www.paolabinetti.it/ Personal website]
* [http://www.senato.it/leg/15/BGT/Schede/Attsen/00022712.htm Info on the website of the Italian Senate]References
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