Journal title RIVISTA SPERIMENTALE DI FRENIATRIA
Author/s Roberta Passione
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/1
Language Italian Pages 22 P. 57-78 File size 1726 KB
DOI 10.3280/RSF2013-001004
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This paper describes Giulio Alfredo Maccacaro’s involvement (from the end of World War II to the 1970’s) in the renewal of medical epistemology, and of institutional and medical practice in Italy. Maccacaro develops a critical approach to the contemporary dominant medical paradigm - rooted in internal medicine - and puts forward an alternative social and epidemiological model, based on a scientific systemic approach, open to "contamination" with other disciplines such as "the new biology", statistics, sociology and politics. His interest in psychiatry - and specifically in Franco Basaglia’s work - is in line with his prime objective: the renewal of medicine. Maccacaro promotes a scientific shift from medicine as "science of disease" to medicine as "science of life and of the human being".
Keywords: Maccacaro, epidemiology, epistemological and institutional renewal of medicine, medicine and psychiatry, medicine and participation
Roberta Passione, Rinnovare la medicina: la questione del metodo in Giulio Alfredo Maccacaro in "RIVISTA SPERIMENTALE DI FRENIATRIA" 1/2013, pp 57-78, DOI: 10.3280/RSF2013-001004