Critical to the clinical value of anthropological anomalies of the skull in Forensic Psychiatry and Criminal Anthropology (From the lessons of Professor Pasquale Penta 1899-1900 academic year)

Marta Licata; Roberta Fusco; Silvia Iorio; Chiara Tesi

Critical to the clinical value of anthropological anomalies of the skull in Forensic Psychiatry and Criminal Anthropology (From the lessons of Professor Pasquale Penta 1899-1900 academic year)

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Marta Licata Center of Research in Osteoarchaeology and Paleopathology, Department of Biotechnology and Life sciences, University of Insubria
Roberta Fusco università Bergamo
Silvia Iorio Unit of History of Medicine and Bioethics, Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Chiara Tesi Center of Research in Osteoarchaeology and Paleopathology, Department of Biotechnology and Life sciences, University of Insubria

Abstract

Criminal Anthropology is a very interesting chapter in the History of Psychiatry of the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. Here, we present the point of view of Professor Pasquale Penta (1859-1904), director of the important Italian scientific Journal: Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, Criminal Anthropology and Affine Sciences, Psychiatric and Criminal Anthropologist, on the “anthropological anomalies”. He developed a position toward the clinical value of anthropological anomalies in forensic psychiatry diagnoses criticizing the excessive importance given also to individual anthropological anomalies.

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18-04-2019

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2019)

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Original articles History of Medicine

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Licata M, Fusco R, Iorio S, Tesi C. Critical to the clinical value of anthropological anomalies of the skull in Forensic Psychiatry and Criminal Anthropology (From the lessons of Professor Pasquale Penta 1899-1900 academic year). Med Histor [Internet]. 2019 Apr. 18 [cited 2025 Apr. 2];3(1):10-5. Available from: https://mattioli1885journals.com/index.php/MedHistor/article/view/8312

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