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Medicina Historica. Studies in History, Paleopathology, Bioethics and Anthropology of Health started in 1910 as Rivista di Storia delle Scienze Mediche e Naturali, and it changed its title in Rivista di Storia della Medicina in 1957. The Journal continues focusing on the history of medicine, in all its aspects. The Medicina Historica publishes original and significant articles on Hist
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Vol. 5 No. 2 (2021)

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Published: 09-09-2021

Editorial

Editorial

Marta Licata
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Original articles: History of Medicine

Searching for the Normal Vision. Measuring Visual Acuity in the 19th Century

Corinne Doria
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Nineteenth Century Moral Treatment of Mental Illness Wore Many Hats

David Evers
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Original articles: Paleopathology

The story of Dante Alighieri’s human remains and their anthropological analysis in the past centuries.

Luigi Papi
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Modern double burial in Central Italy: funerary chamber of the Buondelmonti family in the Basilica of Santa Maria dell’Impruneta (Florence)

Matteo Bini, Valentina Giuffra, Antonio Fornaciari
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Original articles: Bioethics

The Italian legislator’s silence on physician-assisted suicide: legal and bioethical implications

Rosagemma Ciliberti, Nicola Bragazzi, Anna Siri, Paolo Petralia, Alessandro Bonsignore
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Case report: History of Medicine

Malformed skulls from criminal Anthropology: a preliminary study on the Cranioteca of the Anthropology Museum of Naples

Lucia Borrelli, Mariailaria Verderame
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Case report: Paleopathology

A possible case of tuberculosis from a medieval site in northeast Italy. The infant of the Immacolata and San Zenone church, Tassullo, Trentino

Omar Larentis, Enrica Tonina
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Letter to Editor: History of Medicine

Traces of goitre in some archaeological finds

Gaspare Baggieri, Luigi Galieti, Giorgio Di Matteo
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Book Reviews

Book reviews

Massimo Aliverti
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