The Tenchini’s collection: a forensic anthropometric legacy of 19th century Parma, Italy [PDF]
Forensic Sciences Research, 2019 A group of 19th century inmates dead in the prison of Parma are the protagonist of an incredible scientific collection. Lorenzo Tenchini started the creation of this collection and dedicated his work and his studies to its completeness.
Laura Donato +5 more
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From brain collections to modern brain banks: A historical perspective. [PDF]
Alzheimers Dement (N Y), 2019 Abstract Our current knowledge of the structure, function, and diseases of the brain comes from direct examination of its substance. In the last centuries, only a few elite had managed to retrieve, gather, and preserve the elusive brain for their own research.
Carlos AF +5 more
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Célébrer Cesare Lombroso (1906-1909)
Revue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines, 2020 This article reconstructs the commemorations organised in 1906 for the thirty years of Cesare Lombroso's teachings in Turin, and for his funeral three years later.
Silvano Montaldo
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Abstract This chapter traces evolution of the collections of tattoos focusing on the contributions of Cesare Lombroso, the founder of the Criminal Anthropology at the University of Turin and his theory of criminal atavism, posting tattoos as a sign of reversion to a primitive state.
Giacomo Giacobini
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Noi contro tutti: la solidarietà aggressiva nella web communitas No Lombroso
EtnoAntropologia, 2016 In November 2009 the renewed display of the Museum “Cesare Lombroso” opened to visitors in Turin. A “No Lombroso” cartel of Neo-bourbon and other Southern political associations moved to protest against the Museum.
Maria Teresa Milicia
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The reconstruction of the craniological collection of the Lombroso Museum.
, 2022 Through the study of documentation in the Archive of the Lombroso Museum and the comparaison of the writings on the skull collection the authors try to reconstruct the craniological collection, over 700 of skulls.
Cilli, Cristina, Montaldo, Silvano
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A Strange Custom. The Lombroso Museum Tattoos
Before punks and skinheads, before American pachucos and Parisian apaches, there were Emilio, Ciro, Alexandre, Jean, Giovanni, Francesco and many others. They were not members of a youth movement, but their criminal records and tattoos drew the attention of Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909).
MONTALDO, Silvano +10 more
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Was Hannah Twynnoy Killed by a Tiger in England in 1703? A Historical Sociological Approach
Sociology Lens, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 480-496, September 2024.Abstract This paper approaches globalization through the lens of folk lore, myth, and John Law's hopeful monsters, focusing on Hannah Twynnoy, a woman allegedly killed by a tiger in Malmesbury (England) in 1703. Hannah's death was taken up three hundred years later as a metaphor for globalization when local factory jobs were relocated to a ‘tiger ...
Matthew David
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Winter's Topography, Law, and the Colonial Legal Imaginary in British Columbia. [PDF]
Space Cult, 2023 Unger MP.
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On the occasion of the centennial of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1923: Nicolae C. Paulescu-between scientific creativity and political fanatism. [PDF]
Acta Diabetol, 2023 de Leiva-Hidalgo A, de Leiva-Pérez A.
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