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The international dialogue of human sciences
No full textInternationalization is today more than ever a crucial process to spread the Italian historical medical tradition and above all to make our scientific sensitivity in the field of human sciences known even beyond our borders. This is certainly not a one-way process; this openness allows us, in fact, to welcome scientific contributions from far away, capable of increasing, with an international scope, the dialogue around historical medical knowledge
The humanities in biomedical research
No full textIn this new issue, Medicina Historica presents some scientific contributions that open significant reflections on Medical Humanities, sharing the need to recover that humanistic component that for many centuries has characterized medicine as the most humanistic of the scientific discipline
Editorial
Full text linkIn this issue, Medicina Historica presents various medical experiences from the past, spanning distant times and places. With critical meticulousness, the authors who participated in the creation of this issue have still today demonstrated that the history of medicine must spread internationall
Courage and trust in research
Full text linkWith this issue, Medicina Historica continues its journey to bring to light medical experiences of the past that have certainly had resonance in our present. The history of some pathologies that have characterized the research of doctors in the course of history must now be re-read to add to our awareness also that of our trusting past in research and the perseverance of researchers. Such as the history of Grave’s disease, which is today described in a “bio-historical” key by the authors who present the salient moments of the evolution in the research of this disease, starting with the diagnosis in 1835 by Roberto James Graves. The article on Robert Koch, pioneer and founder of modern bacteriology enhances the methodological rigour of the past science through the story of the salient moments in his career. He is an example of methodological rigour still valid for all of us
Searching for the past in the present
Full text linkMedicina Historica closes the year 2022 with a rich number of new scientific considerations on historical issues that have strong repercussions on the current era. This is the goal of our discipline, to always recover the meaning of today’s issues from history
Luigi Porta’s contribution to anesthesia in Europe in the 1800s
No full textLuigi Porta (1800–1875), an Italian physician who was well known in the field of surgery, played an important role in spreading ethereal anesthesia in Europe. Moreover, he proposed an original method to administer ethereal anesthesia, the Italian method “of the bladder of pig”. This paper reminds us of the important role that this physician played in Anesthesiology
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