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Med Lav
May 2014
Dipartimento di scienze mediche e chirurgiche, materno-infantili e dell'adulto, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia.
Based on Hyppocratic values of ancient medicine, Ramazzini's way of thinking prefigures the social medicine that was to be an achievement of the Enlightenment. This contribution aims at analyzing the ethical aspects of the Diatriba. The preface already contains elements that constitute the ethical manifesto of Ramazzini.
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January 2014
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences for Children and Adults.
Salud Publica Mex
October 2002
Departamento de Salud Pública y Ciencias Sociales, Escuela Superior de Medicina, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Plan de San Luis y Díaz Mirón, Casco de Santo Tomás, México, D.F.
Bernardino Ramazzini was a renowned physician and a prolific writer, born in Capri in 1633. He is considered the father of occupational medicine for having written the first paper on workers' diseases (De morbis artificum diatriba). His Treaty on Workers' diseases included 53 different professions, one particular and specific method of analysis, and a methodological proposal to prevent these diseases.
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June 2000
Clinica del Lavoro L. Devoto, Milano.
Three hundred years after the first edition of Ramazzini's "De Morbis Artificum Diatriba", this paper reviews all the articles on the work of the great Master of Carpi that have been published over a century in the ninety volumes of "La Medicina del Lavoro". Since the first issue of the journal in 1901, many authors have submitted papers which revisited and commented on the work of Ramazzini, particularly in anniversary years (1914, the anniversary of his death, 1933 and 1983, anniversaries of his birth), but only Luigi Devoto was capable of fully understanding the methodology introduced by Ramazzini, transforming it into practical applications which he listed in ten fundamental actions. Mainly for this reason and considering that Ramazzini had been practically ignored for two centuries, it was decided to consider the Devoto period as the "true Ramazzini era".
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