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Enrico Morselli
Enrico "Henry" Agostino Morselli (17 July 1852 - 18 February 1929) was an Italian physician and psychical researcher. Morselli was professor at the University of Turin. He is best known for the publication of his influential book, ''Suicide: An Essay on Comparative Moral Statistics'' (1881) claiming that suicide was primarily the result of the struggle for life and nature's evolutionary process. According to Edward Shorter "Morselli is known outside of Italy for having coined the term Body dysmorphic disorder, dysmorphophobia. In Italy, he is known for the psychiatry textbook, ''A Guide to the Semiotics of Mental Illness''." Morselli was a Eugenics, eugenicist and some of his writings have been linked to Scientific racism, scientific racialism. Morselli was also interested in mediumship and Parapsychology, psychical research. He studied the medium Eusapia Palladino and concluded that some of her phenomena was genuine, being evidence for an unknown bio-psychic force present in al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Physician
A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments. Physicians may focus their practice on certain disease categories, types of patients, and methods of treatment—known as specialities—or they may assume responsibility for the provision of continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals, families, and communities—known as general practice. Medical practice properly requires both a detailed knowledge of the academic disciplines, such as anatomy and physiology, underlying diseases and their treatment—the ''science'' of medicine—and also a decent competence in its applied practice—the art or ''craft'' of medicine. Both the role of the physician and the meaning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
