Autore
Carpanetto, Dino

Titolo
Elettricità animale e riforma della medicina in uno scritto autobiografico di Francesco Giuseppe Gardini (1740-1816)
Periodico
Medicina & Storia (Online)
Anno: 2006 - Volume: 6 - Fascicolo: 12 - Pagina iniziale: 115 - Pagina finale: 137

The essay sets out to explain the general orientation of the studies, the problems, the perspectives and the research that were done by Francesco Giuseppe Gardini (1740-1816), a physician and teacher born in San Damiano d’Asti (Piedmont). He had a secular education at the Faculty of Medicine of Turin, where he earned his degree under Carlo Allioni and with Giambattista Beccaria’s guidance. This essay, which is meant as a contribution to cultural history, examines the origins of electricity studies with particular emphasis on electricity in animals, electrical therapy, experiments in physics, the use of lightning conductors, smallpox inoculation and its political and social context. Gardini was a witness to the advancement of science beyond the boundaries of the heterodoxy of the scientific Enlightenment and the orthodoxy of theology, although he was less celebrated than some of his colleagues. He was recruited from the School of Alba and Asti (Piedmont) and made a member of the Accademia Reale delle Scienze and the Società Agraria of Turin. His overriding intellectual concern was with the meaning and impact of electricity theories on religion and cultural practices. The author has also published an interesting autobiographical manuscript of Gardini written after 1800.



SICI: 1828-6224(2006)6:12<115:EAERDM>2.0.ZU;2-8
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