About the Journal
MEDICINA HISTORICA is the new official journal of the Italian Society of History of Medicine. The Journal 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 H
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Current Issue
Vol 3 No 2 (2019)
Published: 2019-08-01
Full Issue
Editorial
Original articles: History of Medicine
The teaching of anatomy throughout the centuries: from Herophilus to plastination and beyond
Abstract 163 | PDF Downloads 162Page 69-77
Case report: History of Medicine
Spanish flu ended a century ago: references in historiography and art
Abstract 119 | PDF Downloads 53Page 78-82
Letter to Editor: History of Medicine
The interpretation of suicide in the work of Enrico Morselli
Abstract 98 | PDF Downloads 65Page 83-85
True change or return to the past? The evolution of psychiatric care in Italy
Abstract 106 | PDF Downloads 225Page 86-87
Original articles: Paleopathology
Case report: Paleopathology
Mummified remains in the field of forensics. The comparison of a 19th century case report with current cases
Abstract 138 | PDF Downloads 123Page 99-104
Letter to Editor: Paleopathology
Talking bones, intermingled individuals from a medieval secondary burial from the church of Saints Pietro and Paolo in Brentonico (Trento, Italy).
Abstract 84 | PDF Downloads 61Page 105-107
The walled nuns of the crypt of Santissima Annunziata in Valenza (Piedmont, Italy)
Abstract 90 | PDF Downloads 67Page 108-109
Original articles: Bioethics
Narrative bioethics and film. Some historical remarks
Abstract 95 | PDF Downloads 81Page 110-123
Book reviews
Pianeta Diversità . Per una memoria del manicomio di Siena
Abstract 89 | PDF Downloads 65Page 124
Online First
Genome editing: slipping down toward Eugenics?
Abstract 37 | PDF Downloads 0Page 206-218
Pancio of Controne (1275 ca.-1340), a Tuscan physician at the courts of Edward II and Edward III of England
Abstract 17 | PDF Downloads 0Page 131-138
Paolo Mascagni and Alessandro Moreschi: who discovered the vascular structure of urethra? Anatomy of an intellectual property dispute
Abstract 5 | PDF Downloads 0Page 170-180
The plague of 1630 in Modena (Italy) through the study of parish registers
Abstract 22 | PDF Downloads 0Page 139-148