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Passion and ethics: A space for voice and tradition in Iorio´s lyrics
No full textA starting point: Iorio´s work is crossed by ways of using the word of the gaucho tradition and folk lyrics. Starting from this premise, we will work on the ethical aspect of saying in Ricardo Iorio´s lyrics, in relation to the recovery of discursive forms present in those poetic traditions. To establish such a relationship, it is enlightening to delve into the practices that the author´s saying displays in his lyrics: recovery of non-urban places as spaces for his lyrics, assumption of an ethical stance without resorting to specific politicities that go beyond a consolidation of the own subject in a singular position, formulas to introduce the word, intonations. One concept, developed by Foucault, is useful: parrhesia. Its literal translation from the Greek is to say / speak frankly. It is a way in which the subject of the enunciation relates to the truth in a game of truth. The parrhesiast accepts the presence of the other in telling his truth. In Iorio there are two others for this game: who receives its truth (public), and who fulfills the role of predecessor (Larralde as a paradigmatic case, but also Martín Fierro). One element completes the genealogy to be traced: the relationship between life and work. In Iorio´s work both spheres are mutually superimposed. Without falling into biographies, but taking into account the friendly return to the author proposed by Barthes, it will be considered how his work leads life and how his life directs the work.Fil: Pisano, Juan Ignacio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Literatura Hispanoamericana; Argentin
An ethnographic study of medical practices and knoweledge in the nahua contest ( Naupan, Puebla, Mexico)
Full text linkIn the last thirty years, the improvement of biomedical acculturate had influenced the medical tradition of Nauha, in souther-eastern Mexico. The study analyses how the constituent elements of biomedical tradition are incorporated into new rhetorical, diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, mixed with languages and symbols typical of local tradition
Plural therapeutic itinearies
No full textThis article addresses the strategies employed by Nahua community of Mexixo to deal with health problems. Drawing on qualitative research, it discusses the choice of plural therapeutic itineraries, including the use of informal and formal healthcare
Medical humanities as an approach towards health
Full text linkIn recent years, the medical-pedagogical debate has been enriched with important contributions and literature, partly aimed at identifying a common and shared definition and name for the Medical Humanities, while also working to es- tablish minimum humanistic skills. Part of the recent discus- sion also focuses on the goal that trainers attempt to achieve through the design of an innovative educational approach and pathway that also involves the acquisition of transversal skills
History of medical bibliography. A useful tool for teaching medical history? A practical sample: explaining the plague|Storia della bibliografia medica. Una risorsa utile per l’insegnamento di storia della medicina? Un esempio pratico: l’illustrazione della peste
No full textThe history of medical bibliography is considered an exclusive prerogative of research for historians of bibliography, historians of book and libraries but not a matter of interest to medical historians. Actually, it represents a high-level potential research field almost unexplored and underused in medical history and also in didactics. The history of medical bibliography suggests original teaching paths to medical historians with connection to the main theories of medical historical knowledge development. The flourishing medical bibliographies printed between the 16th and 17th-century represent a wide didactic tool to introduce medical students to rare medical books collections. The paper offers a practical sample: the history of theories, preventive remedies and treatments of the plague, explained using the printed medical bibliography of Otto Brunfels (1530) and Johannes Antonides Van der Linden (1662). © 2024 eum (Edizioni Università di Macerata, Italy)
Training and practice of the profession of midwife in the Napoleonic age in the March of Fermo
No full textThe aim of this contribution is the historical reconstruction of the training and professional practice of midwives in the March of Fermo (La Marca, or today’s Abruzzo and Marche regions) territory in the Napoleonic age. This study offers an unprecedented picture of this profession, through the study of archival sources integrated with museum objects. The case of the first midwives was analysed, starting from training at the school of obstetrics of S. Caterina alla Ruota of Milan to the professional practice in the March of Fermo. The activity of the local school of obstetrics at the civic hospital was also part of the process of secularisation of the «mothers» (mammane) put in place by Napoleonic institutions in order to return a formal aspect to what was once an unauthorised practice of the profession. The role and work of the professional midwife was also one of the first signs of modernity in health care in the territory. © 2022, eum - Edizioni Universita di Macerata. All rights reserved
Teaching medical history. The impact of rare medical books collections on medical education. A critical overview in Italy
Full text linkThis article illustrates the impact of bibliographic collections of medical history on medical education. The authors have carried out an analysis of academic experiences largely Anglo American where these resources have been used on the educational level. These collections represent an underestimated and underutilised educational potential, especially in Italy, despite the considerable historical wealth and heritage of books and literature available.
Furthermore, the article highlights some possible methodological strategies for a systematic enhancement of the collections in the context of the didactic curriculum of medical studies: the development of a systematic scientific alliance between professor and librarian for a pedagogical use of the collections; the direct involvement in academic programs through didactic planning of the use of historical medical library material; and the use of historical-medical bibliographies as tools for research and understanding the evolution of medical knowledge, to date little used in historical medical teaching. With specific reference to countries such as Italy, defined by a noteworthy wealth of historical-medical book collections, there is a potential that paradoxically still awaits to be adequately utilised, with the exception of some pioneering and learned experiences. This situation is due to the lack of pedagogical pathways and approaches elaborated according to a common strategy among teachers, researchers and librarians
What disease did goethe witness during his journey through the italian alps? Was it pellagra or another disease of malnutrition?
No full textIn the chapter entitled ‘From Brenner to Verona’ of his liter- ary work ‘Italian Journey’ (Italianische Reise), Goethe recounted to have seen numerous unhealthy people as he descended from Brenner in September 1786
Bodies for science. The display of human statues for educational purposes
Full text linkEvery time von Hagens' plastinated bodies are exposed, they cause polemics, controversies and an inevitable echo in the media. It is not clear whether what raises greater scandal and ethical doubts is the exposure of real bodies, corpses for anatomical demonstration, or the fact that the Body Worlds Exhibition attracts crowds of visitors, resulting in huge financial revenues. Contextualized within the history of medicine, if it were only the display of "prepared" corpses to be called into question, the issue should not cause outcry, as we are merely in the presence of the latest technique, plastination, in the long evolution of medical and anatomical teaching. Such statues, created in anatomical cabinets, were used in the past as a compendium for courses of anatomical studies. The bodies were prepared using complex techniques, treated with great care and postured as if they were "alive" in order to make them more understandable and effective for teaching. A related theme - with important ethical implications - is how these bodies were made available to anatomical institutes. In Britain there was the very interesting case of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), father of utilitarianism: he donated his body for research purposes and display. This philosopher was ahead of his time not only regarding the display of bodies for scientific purposes, but also the formula for the donation of bodies to science, now the only really viable solution for the use of the human body in educational and scientific settings
Mario Santoro (1905-1998). A pioneer of italian nipiology
Full text linkBackground and aim: After his death in 1998, the biography of Mario Santoro was the subject of studies published with the aim of reconstructing the biography and bibliography of his scientific production. These studies, generally rather celebratory, do not allow to deduce the substantial contributions that Santoro has made in medicine in areas such as paediatrics and, more specifically, nipiology. Methods: The sources to reconstruct the original contributions of the scientific work of Santoro are the documents kept in the historical archive of Studio Firmano. An analysis was carried out on documentation on the years of Santoro’s medical training at the Universities of Rome and Padua, as well as from 1939 to 1952, in which his interest in nipiology developed. Correspondence with the main scholars of reference for nipiology represents a useful scientific tool in documenting the importance assumed in the national and regional context of the activities carried out by Santoro. Results: It is remarkable the discover of the unpublished letter from Ernesto Cacace, the founder of Nipiology (Naples, 11 September 1945) that takes on the importance of a scientific manifesto, illustrating in detail the pioneering nipiological work carried out in Fermo. Conclusions: Santoro founded the first Italian school of nipiological assistants, started in an Italian brephotrophy and supported, with a series of initiatives, the scientific development of the Marche regional section of the Italian Society of Nipiology, becoming a pioneer of the diffusion in Italy of the nipiology as a new experimental science
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