Miscellany
9516 Dizionario Biografico della Storia della Medicina e delle Scienze Naturali
Liber Amicorum
Text by Massimo Piattelli Palmarini, Pietro Corsi, Gianni Mancassola. Curated by Roy Porter. Introduction by Roy Porter
1985-1989 .
Language: Italian
This work collects in four volumes the biographies of the friends of medicine, i.e. all those who played a decisive role for the benefit of health and health care: scientists, jurists, writers, statesmen, visionaries, propagandists, even some famous patients.
Although medicine has had its giants, its national schools, and its traditions, it is man as such who is, in the words of William Osler, the receptor animal of medicine. The crucial role that medicine has played for mankind is then reflected in the interest that biographies of scientists often arouse. Filtered through the eyes of professional historians, in the biographies collected here facts are distinguished from legends, the intermittence of the salient on the background of the banal is emphasised, and the balance between intimate, personal history, and public resonances is perfectly balanced. The volume also makes use of two most recent results of historical-iconographical research and each biographical entry is accompanied by a portrait from the Wellcome Library’s holdings of images.
Tomo I (A-E), Tomo II (F-K), Tomo III (L-P), Tomo IV (Q-Z)