You visit your general practitioner and a simple examination or X-ray suggests that there is something growing at the back of your nose. Then follows a visit to a hospital, and a scan which shows a 10 x 5 cm mass growing in the middle of your head. This lecture looks at the ethnographic context, includes some interviews in Haiti with zombies, and after biomedical investigation, proposes a new hypothesis. Incontinence of urine plagues a large proportion of the general population. Major distress is the result, along with the social and financial implications not only for the sufferer but for the country as a whole.
Help is at hand since anyone with incontinence can be made dry or substantially improved.
Major advances have occurred in both the understanding and management of this distressing condition which can bring help to the sufferer. On the 12 December 1969, a bomb exploded in a central Milanese bank killing 16 people and injuring 90. The attack was initially blamed on a small group of anarchists, but later turned out to the work of neo-fascists and shady government agents. Since 1969, this 'massacre' has been the focus of a series of debates and clashes over memory, representations and 'the truth'. These conflicts have manifested themselves in myriad ways - at anniversaries, funerals and trials, through plaques and memorials and in film, literature and historical work.