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Valentina Gazzaniga

Professore di Storia della medicina, Sapienza-Università di Roma
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[HTML][HTML] The Spanish Influenza Pandemic: a lesson from history 100 years after 1918

M Martini, V Gazzaniga, NL Bragazzi… - Journal of preventive …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In Europe in 1918, influenza spread through Spain, France, Great Britain and Italy, causing
havoc with military operations during the First World War. The influenza pandemic of 1918 …

[PDF][PDF] HIV and tuberculosis: The paradox of dual illnesses and the challenges of their fighting in the history

D Canetti, N Riccardi, M Martini, S Villa, A Di Biagio… - Tuberculosis, 2020 - stoptb.it
Tuberculosis is an ancient infectious disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium
tuberculosis that is still nowadays afflicting humans all over the world. It causes illhealth for …

[HTML][HTML] The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA): updated norms and psychometric insights into adaptive testing from healthy individuals in Northern Italy

EN Aiello, C Gramegna, A Esposito… - Aging clinical and …, 2022 - Springer
Background The availability of fine-grained, culture-specific psychometric outcomes can
favor the interpretation of scores of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), the most …

The Italian law on informed consent and advance directives: New rules of conduct for the autonomy of doctors and patients in end-of-life care

R Ciliberti, I Gorini, V Gazzaniga, F De Stefano… - Journal of critical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose Italy has long lacked a law regulating patients' informed consent and advance
directives (ADs). All previous attempts to introduce a law on this matter failed to reach …

[HTML][HTML] The history of tuberculosis: the social role of sanatoria for the treatment of tuberculosis in Italy between the end of the 19th century and the middle of the 20th

M Martini, V Gazzaniga, M Behzadifar… - Journal of preventive …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Since ancient times, the most frequently prescribed remedy for the treatment of tuberculosis
was a stay in a temperate climate. From the middle of the 19th century to the middle of the …

[HTML][HTML] A survey on the knowledge and attitudes of Italian medical students toward body donation: ethical and scientific considerations

R Ciliberti, M Gulino, V Gazzaniga, F Gallo… - Journal of clinical …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Post mortem body donation (PMBD) for medical training and research plays a key role in
medical-surgical education. The aim of this study is to evaluate Italian medical students' …

[HTML][HTML] Soft skills are hard skills—a historical perspective

S Iorio, M Cilione, M Martini, M Tofani, V Gazzaniga - Medicina, 2022 - mdpi.com
The increasingly swift changes in the field of medicine require a reassessment of the skills
necessary for the training of technically qualified doctors. Today's physicians also need to be …

[HTML][HTML] The Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) and its sub-scales: validation and updated normative data in an Italian population sample

EN Aiello, A Esposito, C Gramegna, V Gazzaniga… - Neurological …, 2022 - Springer
Background Deficits of executive functioning (EF) are frequently found in neurological
disorders. The Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) is one of the most widespread and …

The use of mercury against pediculosis in the Renaissance: the case of Ferdinand II of Aragon, King of Naples, 1467–96

G Fornaciari, S Marinozzi, V Gazzaniga, V Giuffra… - Medical …, 2011 - cambridge.org
The hair samples of Ferdinand II of Aragon (1467–1496), King of Naples, whose mummy is
preserved in the Basilica of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples, showed a high content of …

[HTML][HTML] Bioethics in italian medical and healthcare education. A pilot study

G Matteo, P Sara, B Ilaria, G Valentina… - Acta Bio Medica …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background and aim of the work: Bioethics is relevant in healthcare and medical schools.
However, unlike other foreign countries, its teaching in Italy has only been recently …