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ANTONIO ROTA (1838-1897). LA MEDICINA NELL'OVEST BRESCIANO NELLA SECONDA META' DELL'OTTOCENTO
No full textAugusto Pellegrini (1877-1958): contributions to surgery and prosthetic orthopaedics
No full textAugusto Pellegrini worked as a general surgeon in Northern Italy. In 1905, in the field of orthopaedics, he described post-traumatic knee ossification, associated particularly with sports activities, which took the name of Pellegrini disease. In collaboration with Giuliano Vanghetti, he contributed to the application of kinematic prostheses of the upper extremity (kineplasty), enabling the patient to use his muscles to power the prosthesis. His surgical innovations were particularly in the field of abdominal surgery, at a time when antibiotics were not available and when radiological diagnostics were in their infancy. He advocated the surgical treatment of acute appendicitis 'at presentation', namely within 24-48 h of diagnosis, thereby reducing the development of abdominal complications. In 1904 he introduced disinfection of the hands solely with alcohol before each surgical operation, encouraging the healing of wounds by first intention
Cinquant'anni e una vita: Milva e il DAMS
No full textIl capitolo descrive la donazione dell'archivio di Maria Ilva Biolcati, nota come Milva, all'Università di Bologna, evidenziando il valore simbolico e accademico dell'archivio. L'archivio offre una visione approfondita dell'arte e della carriera di Milva, attraverso la documentazione di collaborazioni artistiche significative e il suo ruolo unico nell'unire arte colta e popolare. Questo lascito rappresenta non solo un tributo alla carriera di Milva ma anche un prezioso strumento di studio e ricerca per l'Università, in linea con i principi interdisciplinari del DAMS
Mozart's or Ambient Music do not Affect Autoalgometric Pain Threshold
No full textNowadays, researchers and clinicians are increasingly interested in alternative non-pharmacological treatments, and music therapy seems to have additional and powerful effects on different pathologies and pain. However, since pain is a subjective perception, it is difficult to evaluate if and which effect music has on it. In this study, a new device and method have been introduced to objectively estimate pain threshold and its changes related to external stimuli. The above-mentioned device, called autoalgometer, allows to evaluate pain threshold changes while listening to music or other sounds. In this experiment, the pain threshold was evaluated in twenty-seven volunteers after listening to one out of three different soundtracks: white noise, Mozart's sonata K448 or Brian Eno's ambient music. Compared to staying in silence, listening to the recordings had no significant effect on pain threshold, and the results did not show any significant difference between the experimental groups. Probably, the positive effect of music described in other studies can be ascribed to a psychological effect, meaning that music can improve subjective mood and, thus, modify pain perception
"you Are Older, although You Do Not Know That": Time, Consciousness, and Memory in "a Kind of Alaska" by Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
No full text"A Kind of Alaska"is a one-act play by the British playwright and Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter (1930-2008), based on the book Awakenings by the neurologist Oliver Sacks (1933-2015). This play, first performed in 1982, is centered around the character of Deborah, a middle-aged woman, struck by encephalitis lethargica ("sleeping sickness") at the age of 16, who wakes up after 29 years of apparent sleep following the injection of an unnamed drug. This article analyzes how Pinter's drama investigated the mysterious and fascinating relationship between time, memory, and consciousness. The term "awakenings,"chosen by Sacks himself, clearly refers to the restoration of voluntary motor function in patients with postencephalitic parkinsonism who responded to levodopa. However, it also suggests that these patients had an impairment of awareness. Actually, beyond the acute phase, subjects with postencephalitic parkinsonism were not sleeping but severely akinetic and therefore probably aware of the passage of time. Oliver Sacks probably did not entirely recognize the intrinsic contradiction between prolonged sleep (with consequent impairment of awareness and subjective "time gap") of the acute lethargic phase and the severe akinesia with preserved awareness of the time-passing characteristic of postencephalitic parkinsonism. This confusion was further compounded by Harold Pinter in his play
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