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Acta Palaeomedica - International Journal of Palaeomedicine
No full textIn this issue we celebrate traditional osteological methods in papers addressing deviant burials and post-mortem mutilation as well as evidence of autoptic practices, respectively from Tuscany and Spain, a comprehensive analysis of malaria in Ancient Egypt, and congenital spine anomalies in prehistoric Sicily. This set of papers is corroborated by additional contributions from Australia and Germany presenting bioarchaeological findings in South Australia and the importance of plaster casts in German collections.
Editor-in-Chief
Francesco M. Galassi
Managing Editor
Elena Varott
Final notes on: Response to Galassi et al. concerning the paper by Turgut et al. "Three mythic giants for common fœtal malformation called 'cyclopia': Polyphemus, Tepegöz and Grendel", Child's Nervous System, DOI 10.1007/s00381-019-04,207-y
Full text linkWe would like to thank Turgut and his colleagues for accepting our remarks and for further stimulating the debate on the historical and palaeopathological aspects of cyclopia, as a way of both enriching the known record on this condition and supporting a broader, humanities-inclusive form of medical education
LE MACCHINE ANATOMICHE DELLA CAPPELLA SANSEVERO: CONSIDERAZIONI STORICHE E PALEOPATOLOGICHE
No full textThe Anatomical Machines are, together with the Veiled Christ, tightly linked to the Chapel and the
history of its patron, Raimondo di Sangro, 7th prince of Sansevero. Currently exhibited in the subterranean
cavea of the Cappella Sansevero and protected in wooden and glass cases, they were commissioned
to the Sicilian physician Giuseppe Salerno in the second half of the eighteenth century. The
Anatomical Machines of the Sansevero Chapel are represented by two bodies. These two skeletons,
a man and a pregnant woman, are surrounded by their own circulatory system. Over the centuries,
Sansevero’s anatomical machines have been the main characters of legends and superstitions, representing
a marvellous example of science and art. Legend has it that the models were the outcome of an
operation of human taxidermy in which two servants were killed through the injection of embalming
substances in their blood vessels
Brief note : towards a palaeopathological reassessment of the ancient Egyptian mummy of Aline and her portrait (roman period)
No full textThis article presents the plan of a new research project by the FAPAB R.C. team assessing the palaeopathological
aspects of the mummy of Aline, of which only indirect sources have been preserved, by
combining anthropological and palaeopathographical methods
The Forensic Facial Reconstruction of Shep-en-Isis
No full textThe Forensic Facial Reconstruction of Shep-en-Isis Shep-en-Isis (Schepenese), a mummy from Ancient Egypt, has been in St. Gallen since 1820. It has the reputation of being the most famous mummy in Switzerland and is kept in the monastery library. The book presents the history of the mummy and its research and shows for the first time the appearance of the woman from the 26th Dynasty, created using forensic methods for the first time
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Acta Palaeomedica. International Journal of Palaeomedicine
No full textThe first issue of this journal aims to offer its new readership with a very interesting set of topics, ranging from the Black Death to family interrelations of Egyptian pharaohs, from the discovery of skeletons dated to the 4th century BC in Syracuse to the study of cranial trepanation in mummies in Cuba, and much more, including some book reviews.
[Editor-in-Chief: Francesco M. Galassi; Managing Editor: Varotto Elena
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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