Open Access Journal: Medicina nei secoli: Journal of history of medicine and medical humanities

Medicina nei secoli: Journal of history of medicine and medical humanities 

E-ISSN :2531-7288

ISSN: 0394-9001

Medicina nei secoli: Journal of history of medicine and medical humanities, founded in 1964, is an international peer-reviewed Journal published by Sapienza University of Rome (Sapienza University Press). Since 1989, MnS has been edited by the History of Medicine and Bioethics Unit of the Department of  Molecular Medicine.

MnS publishes original research papers, critical reviews and short communications devoted to all aspects of History of Medicine and Biomedicine, History of Healthcare and Health Professions, History of Bioethics and Medical Humanities.

Vol. 37 No. 1 (2025)

Published: 2025-04-17

Articles

• Οὖτις – Noman

  Alain Touwaide

  5-8

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• Voiceless pain. On the trail of the suffering of children and adolescents in the Greco-Roman world.

  Marco Cilione, Lorenzo Morucci, Valentina Gazzaniga

  9-18

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• The Pain of Despair: the Suffering of Those who see no Future

  Serena Buzzi

  19-32

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• Galen on faking pain

  Christina Savino

  33-46

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• Interpreting Pain in early Stoicism

  Luciana Repici

  47-58

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• Conceptions et significations de la douleur dans le Lilium medicinae (1303-1305) de Bernard de GordonIn this article, we aim to contribute to the study of medieval conceptions of pain by analysing a work that is representative of university medicine at th

  Laetitia Loviconi

  59-80

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• In pain you shall bring forth children. Humble Acceptance of the Pain of Childbirth? A Brief Overview from the Middle Ages to the Sixteenth Century

  Alessandra Foscati

  81-100

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• Art that cures. The power of interventions based on music, painting, writing and movies to relieve physical and mental pain

  Mascia Capitani, Giuseppina Di Marcello, Stefania Fortuna, Roberta Perticarini, Vanessa Sabatini, Silvia Sorcinelli

  101-118

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• The way of the sick to the Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Rome in the 17th-18th centuries

  Marian Surdacki

  121-136

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• The Enigma Christina of Sweden (1626 – 1689): Sexuality, Power and some medicalpsychological hypotheses

  Fabiola Zurlini, Silvia Iorio, Vera Nigrisoli Wärnhjelm

  137-152

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• Sowing Children. Interpreting the morphology of votive wombs

  Lorenzo Morucci, Silvia Iorio, Valentina Gazzaniga, Marco Cilione

  153-156

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Short Communication

• The beginnings of Public Hygiene in Milan during the 14th century. The studies of Francesco La Cava (1877-1958)

  Barbara Pezzoni, Enrica Tonina, Omar Larentis, Ilaria Gorini

  159-164

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