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Arturo Castiglioni, c. 1900

Arturo Castiglioni (10 April 1874, Trieste – 21 January 1953, Milano) was an Austro-Hungarian Empire-born American medical historian and university professor.

Biography[edit]

Castiglioni grew up in Trieste, Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1939, he emigrated to the States and became a professor at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. His brother was Camillo Castiglioni, an Italian-Austrian banker. Castiglioni was a member of the International Society for the History of Medicine.[1]

Literary works[edit]

  • Il volto di Ippocrate, 1925
  • Storia della medicina, 1927
  • Italian medicine, 1932
  • The history of tuberculosis, 1933
  • The renaissance of medicine in Italy, 1934
  • Incantesimo e magia, 1934
  • L'orto della sanita, 1935

Bibliography[edit]

  • John Farquhar Fulton, "Arturo Castiglioni 1874-1953", Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 1953, vol. 8, n. 2, pp. 129–132

References[edit]

  1. ^ 2001, Franz-Andre Sondervorst, Chronique de SIHM

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