Output details
30 - History
Open University
Chapter title
Per una biografia di Paolo Zacchia: nuovi documenti e ipotesi di ricerca
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
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Publisher of book
FrancoAngeli
Book title
Paolo Zacchia. Alle Origini della Medicina Legale 1584-1659
ISBN of book
9788856800234
Year of publication
2008
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This is the first comprehensive biographical assessment of Paolo Zacchia, the ‘founding father’ of legal medicine, whose work of synthesis, Quaestiones Medico-Legales (1621-1635) shaped practice for centuries to come. Based on previously unexploited archival material, the chapter explores Zacchia’s origins (possibly in a conversos family) and his activities within the community of Roman physicians. The chapter also highlights his interactions with seventeenth-century Roman society at large. The volume is the first publication devoted to Zacchia to appear with a coherent historical perspective.
