Autore
Scartabellati, Andrea

Titolo
Il dovere dei medici italiani nell'ora presente. Biopolitica, seduzione bellica e battaglie culturali nelle scienze umane durante il primo conflitto mondiale
Periodico
Medicina & Storia (Online)
Anno: 2007 - Volume: 7 - Fascicolo: 14 - Pagina iniziale: 65 - Pagina finale: 94

The essay reconstructs the complex events of the human sciences in Italy - and more specifically anthropology and psychiatry - from August 1914 to the years immediately after World War One. The main theme is the multi-faceted role of the doctor as national intellectual representing the ruling class in the country during wartime. The analysis of a documentation, which is rarely studied by historians, makes it possible to list a series of topics which bring to light the vital presence of a positivist cultural world: the drastic rejection of the German scientific experience which in the past had been taken as a model; the refusal of attributing value to universalism in science; the formulation of an ideology which, by combining political prescriptions and biological paradigms, will lead to an original interpretation of the natural history of humankind, of the war- phenomenon and of German collective guilt; and the attempt, as part of the fight for national cultural hegemony, to make polemical use against Benedetto Croce and Futurism of the same allegations as had been made against German sciences. Last but not least, in the 1920s, there was a return to a more profitable relation with German science, in line with the change of the international political climate. These are the main topics around which the hypothesis is built and developed.



SICI: 1828-6224(2007)7:14<65:IDDMIN>2.0.ZU;2-V
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