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Sulle modalità e sui risultati degli interventi di primo secondo e terzo livello per la lotta alle tossicodipendenze adottati in Italia, nonché sulle principali esperienze straniere
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L’epidemia di Cholera Morbus del 1855 in una città dello Stato Pontificio: l’inizio dell’esercizio razionale della medicina in una relazione governativa
No full textLa sfida della solidarietà nella donazione di organi. Verso una società informata e consapevole.
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Psychiatry and philosophy: a paradigm of scientific knowledge unity | [Psichiatria e filosofia: un paradigma dell'unità del sapere scientifico.]
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Interpretations and therapies of pain during modern and ancient age
No full textThe problem of pain has always been a cornerstone in reflections of mankind, privileged place to endeavour a comprehensive understanding of his own meaning. So we are not surprised realising how many thinkers identified the problem of pain with the essential issue in order to characterise man. Pain has been and is, despite its widespread removal in modern western cultures, both a constructive and destructive strength of our deeper sense. History of pain has been mainly, but not only, history against pain, struggle with this, prima facie, contradictory aspect of human condition. We'll trace out a path, spanning many centuries, looking for strategies to cope with physical pain. This choice is justified by the amount of therapeutic achievements concerned the control of pain during the 19th century compared with those of the preceding ages. This division underlines the progress achieved in this field during the last two centuries and make clear the difficulties encountered by Medicine and allied sciences in getting operative scientific credit. In the background there are the problems of palliative cares, euthanasia, and the hope to approach death with dignity
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