Matteo Borsa (1751-1798) an His "Hippocratic" Reform of Medicine

Authors

  • Alberto Jori University of Tubingen, D

Keywords:

Matteo Borsa, Philosophy of medicine, Royal Accademy of Mantua, Hippocrates

Abstract

 The article examines an essay on philosophy of medicine that is, in the same time, a manifest for the reform of medicine. The author is Matteo Borsa (1751-1798) who was for a long period Segretario perpetuo of the Academia Reale di Mantova. The essay, originally entitled "The physiologist", was published in 1781 and reveals a deeply skeptical vision of the cognitive power of medicine.    

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2010-09-01

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