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    Storia della Medicina

    Monographic series on the History of Medicine of L’ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER

    Monographic peer-reviewed series on History of Medicine published by L'Erma di Bretschneider open to medico-historical researches in all their meanings and approaches, such as history of medical ideas, history of health practices (clinical, experimental, public health), history of diseases and biological evolution in connection with diseases, history of health institutions (Hospices, Lazarettos, Clinics, Hospitals, Speciality Institutions, Schools and Universities, political Health Institutions), medical museology, medical historiography, medical biographies and paleopathology. It accepts original contributions on issues from prehistory to contemporary time, discussed by a sound documentary basis and clear exposition, inserted in the general context of the evolution of human thought and civilization, preferably able to cast new light not only on the past, but also on the present time.

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    Editor-in-Chief

    Fabio Zampieri, Dept. of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua

    Editorial Board

    Corbellini, Gilberto. Social Sciences and Humanities, Cultural Heritage, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
    Fantini, Bernardino. Faculté de Médecine, University of Geneva
    Gazzaniga, Valentina. Dept. of Biotechnology and Medico-Surgical Sciences, Sapienza - University of Rome
    Giaretta, Pierdaniele. Dept. of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padua
    Gourevitch, Danielle. Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) of Paris
    Mazzarello, Paolo. Dept. of Neurological Sciences, University of Pavia
    Silvano, Giovanni. Dept. of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padua
    Thiene, Gaetano. Dept. of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua
    Van den Tweel, Jan. Dept. of Pathology, University Medical Center of Utrecht

    Editorial Staff

    Bigotti, Fabrizio. Centre for Medical History, College of Humanities, University of Exeter
    Galassi, Francesco. Institut für Evolutionre Medizin, University of Zurich
    Zanatta, Alberto. Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua

    Both the Board and the Staff assure the scientific value of published books by a peer review process.

Storia della Medicina
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Pythagorica Medica

Scienza e sapienza nella tradizione preippocratica

Pythagoras's school recognised a special role to the teaching of medicine. This cultural heritage influenced all the thinkers who inquired into nature and man's place in it between the 6th and the 4th century B. C., especially in the Greek West. This volume aims at pointing out the traces of the close relationship between the Pythagorean thought and ...
Storia della Medicina, 07
2022, pp. 172
ISBN: 9788891320230
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Storia della Medicina, 07
2022, pp. 172
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The Heart in Antiquity

A Journey through Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, Pre-Hispanic America, and Greece

This book represents the first systematic investigation on ancient cardiology, which includes the first civilizations of human history, such as those flourished in Mesopotamia, Pharaonic Egypt, Vedic India, and China. It includes also major pre-Hispanic civilizations at their apex, namely the Maya, Aztec and Inca, given that they shared fundamental features with the first ones. Finally, it closes with Greek medicine because it represents....
Storia della Medicina, 06
2022, pp. 456
ISBN: 9788891327826
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Storia della Medicina, 06
2022, pp. 456
ISBN: 9788891327826
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Ceroplastics

The Science of Wax

The art of wax modelling or ceroplastics has an ancient origin, from early Egyptian, Greek and Roman times. It was re-discovered between the 13th - 14th centuries in Florence with the cult of votive offerings; with the advent of Neoclassicism it extended into a more scientific environment, flourishing in the study of normal and pathological anatomy, obstetrics, zoology ...
Storia della Medicina, 05
2022, pp. 370
ISBN: 9788891320278
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Storia della Medicina, 05
2022, pp. 370
ISBN: 9788891320278
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This volume collects essays dealing with the history of medicine in early modern Europe, and ranging from experiments and practices to the role of erudition in court-medicine, from the study of tarantism and plagues to the uses of drugs, from the collaborations and dissemination of medical knowledge to the epistemological classification of diseases...
Storia della Medicina, 04
2021, pp. 334
ISBN: 9788891320186
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Storia della Medicina, 04
2021, pp. 334
ISBN: 9788891320186
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Emergenza Covid: Niguarda Case History

Un’esperienza italiana nella lotta alla pandemia COVID-19 (marzo - giugno 2020)

Edited by Elena Fontanella
Dal 22 febbraio 2020 il Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda di Milano si è trovato ad affrontare in prima linea l' emergenza COVID-19: un' esperienza straordinaria, dura e difficile, mai vissuta nei suoi 80 anni di attività e senza precedenti nella storia recente. I 70 Reparti e 11 Dipartimentidell' Ospedale hanno deciso di raccontare l' esperienza vissuta in quei giorni, tra il marzo e il giugno 2020...
Storia della Medicina, 3
2020, pp. 478
ISBN: 9788891320971
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2020, pp. 478
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Elias Ashmole

The Quartecentenary Biography

Storia della Medicina, 02
2017, pp. 268
ISBN: 9788891315878
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Storia della Medicina, 02
2017, pp. 268
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Il Metodo anatomo-clinico fra meccanicismo ed empirismo

Marcello Malpighi, Antonio Maria Valsalva e Giovanni Battista Morgagni

Storia della Medicina, 01
2016, pp. 440
ISBN: 9788891311733
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2016, pp. 440
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