An etymological “autopsy” of Morgagni's title: De sedibus et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis (1761)

Summary For the Morgagnian anniversaries of 2011 to 2012, the University of Padua organized a wide research project, trying to understand Morgagni's contribution in his historical context and why he is still considered the father of a new way of thinking in medicine, based on anatomoclinical co...

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Published in:Human pathology 2014, Vol.45 (1), p.12-16
Main Authors: Zampieri, Fabio, PhD, Zanatta, Alberto, PhD, Thiene, Gaetano, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anatomoclinical correlations
Anatomy - history
Autopsy
Disease
Giovanni Battista Morgagni
History of pathology
History, 18th Century
Italy
Mechanism
Medical research
Medicine
Morgagni
Pathology
Philosophy
Studies
Textbooks as Topic - history
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Summary:Summary For the Morgagnian anniversaries of 2011 to 2012, the University of Padua organized a wide research project, trying to understand Morgagni's contribution in his historical context and why he is still considered the father of a new way of thinking in medicine, based on anatomoclinical correlations. Calling his masterpiece De sedibus et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis , Morgagni placed his research in a specific tradition of medical studies: the mechanistic approach to medicine, considered new in different European contexts. This approach gave Morgagni the theoretical structure to find his anatomopathologic research and the revolutionary idea for his time: post mortem dissections could be useful to understand pathophysiologic mechanisms and clinical symptoms in the living.
ISSN:0046-8177
1532-8392
DOI:10.1016/j.humpath.2013.04.019