Arturo Castiglioni (10 April 1874, Trieste – 21 January 1953, Milano) was an Austro-Hungarian Empire-born American medical historian and university professor.

Biography

Castiglioni grew up in Trieste, Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1939, he emigrated to the States and became a professor at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. His brother was Camillo Castiglioni, an Italian-Austrian banker. Castiglioni was a member of the International Society for the History of Medicine.

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Literary works

Il volto di Ippocrate, 1925

Storia della medicina, 1927

Italian medicine, 1932

The history of tuberculosis, 1933

The renaissance of medicine in Italy, 1934

Incantesimo e magia, 1934

L'orto della sanita, 1935

Bibliography

John Farquhar Fulton, "Arturo Castiglioni 1874-1953", Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 1953, vol. 8, n. 2, pp. 129–132

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References

External links

Italian medical historians

Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States

American medical historians

1874 births

1952 deaths

People from Trieste

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