Article ID: CBB714050863

Dottrina dei sensi e laboratorio dell’esperienza nell’opera di Paolo Zacchia (1584-1659). A proposito delle nascite mostruose (2018)

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This article explores the interaction between the five senses, and especially sight, and the experience within the doctrine and practice of seventeenth-century legal medicine. Paolo Zacchia’s "Quaestiones medico-legales" are the ideal laboratory for testing the working method of the Roman physician in this context who was a consultant for the Rota Romana. Among actual cases outlined by Zacchia in his treatise, the birth and the life of monstrous and deformed human beings is a subject broadly analyzed. In writing his "Historia monstrorum," the author pays particular attention not only to the historical evidence produced by medical works but also to the news described by contemporary eye-witnesses or reported in letters written to Zacchia.

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Authors & Contributors
De Ceglia, Francesco Paolo
Alibrandi, Rosamaria
Vannucci, Laura
Lavenia, Vincenzo
Nader-Esfahani, Sanam
Pittalis, Edoardo
Concepts
Medicine
Medicine and law
Forensic medicine
Anatomy
Autopsy
Medicine and religion
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Medieval
16th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
Italy
France
Florence (Italy)
Europe
Padua (Italy)
Naples (Italy)
Institutions
University of Padua
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