The Heart in Antiquity
A Journey through Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, Pre-Hispanic America, and Greece
2022, pp. 456
ISBN: 9788891327826
Fabio Zampieri ORCID: 0000-0003-4956-4299 is Associate Professor of History of Medicine at the Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health of the University of Padua. Before starting his carrier at Padua University, he was researcher at Geneva Institute of History of Medicine, Switzerland, and at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College of London, UK. He still maintains international collaborations, being member of history of medicine societies, as well as being involved in research projects, congresses, and publications. His principal fields of research are on the history of Padua medical school, the contributions of evolutionary biology in medical sciences, the history of pathology, and the history of cardiology. He is the authors of 6 books and of about 300 papers as articles in international peer review journals, book chapters, contributions in conference proceedings.