Luigi Mangiagalli

<p>Luigi Mangiagalli (1850-1928) is a well known figure and a “founding father” of obstetrics and gynecology in Italy, but less recognized are the wide range implications of his work on a public health and social level. In fact, apart from its surgical, clinical and academic values, all the ac...

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Main Authors: Piergiorgio Crosignani, Carlo La Vecchia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2014-06-01
Series:Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health
Online Access:http://ebph.it/article/view/10074
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Summary:<p>Luigi Mangiagalli (1850-1928) is a well known figure and a “founding father” of obstetrics and gynecology in Italy, but less recognized are the wide range implications of his work on a public health and social level. In fact, apart from its surgical, clinical and academic values, all the activities of Mangiagalli had a public health, and hence a political relevance. Thus, when at age 27 hewas named professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Sassari, Sardinia, he not only focused on the improvement of the local obstetrics clinic -when he arrived there were no beds and only a one broken forceps- and the control of puerperal infections, but also to the control of malaria and syphilis in pregnancy.</p>
ISSN:2282-0930