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| Accesso online: | https://ricerca.sns.it/handle/11384/86046 |
| Autore principale: | Massai, Veronica.
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| Titolo: | Medicina e potere : Angelo Gatti e l'inoculazione del vaiolo (1724-1798) / Veronica Massai. |
| Note: | Tesi di dottorato in Discipline storiche, Scuola normale superiore di Pisa, 2014 Tutor: Daniele Menozzi, Jean-Claude Waquet |
| Abstract: | The name of the tuscan physician Angelo Gatti (1724-1798) has been always closely linked to the practice and promotion of the inoculation for smallpox. At that time this medical technique was, before Jenner discoveries about vaccination, the only way to prevent an endemic and deadly disease like smallpox. In the second half of the eighteenth century, thanks to the rising of the confidence in science progress supported by the enlightenment thought, the inoculation for smallpox became a fully discussed practice, able to involved in the debate not only important members of the scientific community but also influential representatives of the social and political milieu. Arrived in Paris in 1760, Angelo Gatti was immediately appreciated as physician and for his particular way to deal with inoculation like his two masterpieces testify: the Réflexions sur les préjugés qui s'opposent au progrès et à la perfection de l'inoculation (1764) and the Nouvelles réflexions sur la pratique de l'inoculation (1767). This has been the starting point of my research which, thanks to the work done in many libraries and archives of Europe, has been enriched by a large corpus of unpublished documents which guided my research, sometimes to unexpected paths, to the recontruction of the life of this physician, until today little known and above all, little studied. Coming from a modest and peripheral social background, Angelo Gatti was able to create an important network of relationships with many leading figures of the social, political and cultural setting both in Italy and France: this network of relationships together with his medical skills about inoculation, favoured his personal and professional success and allowed him to achieve prominent social status which led him to obtain relevant positions, more and more prestigious. The draft of my thesis has been conceived in order to follow Gatti's journey from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany under the Regency, passing by the France of the last years of King Louis XV, to continue through the Gatti's homecoming to Tuscany under the Grand Duke Peter 1 Leopold to arrive at the Borbonian Court of Ferdinand IV and Mary Caroline in Naples, where the tuscan physician died in 1798. The biographical reconstruction has always weaved together and compared with historiographical debates, scientific literature and extensive historical schemes linked up with the history of science, politics and culture in order to assume, as far as possible, an interdisciplinary study view, which allow to analyse the different contexts where Angelo Gatti played a leading role |
| Altri autori: | Menozzi, Daniele.
Waquet, Jean-Claude. Scuola normale superiore (Pisa). |
| Collezione tematica: | Tesi di dottorato di interesse storico-scientifico (Italia).
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