Biomedical subjects
B R D'Este
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[Sport doping in times].
The employment of various substances drawn from three different kingdoms of Nature, to invigorate consumed, tired bodies has its origins in the most remote ages. As sport professionalism spreads, doping in sports developes in a gradual and progressive manner: it becomes a sequence of more or less illegal (or outlawed) practices aimed at increasing physical resistance and reaction speed, as well as to lessen the emotional effects of competition. These practices, which often are at dubious efficacy, are associated with the risk of collateral effects, some of which may be lethal. This complex problem, which at times deals with questions of an ethical, medical-legal and social nature, demands an urgent and informed adjustment (or modification) of the current laws that deal with this matter.
Regulation for "saving" the drowned in Italy (XVIII-XIXth century), with particular reference to the Republic of Venice.
The author gives a brief chronological syntesis, starting from the XVIII century, of the various provisions issued in Italy, with particular reference to the Republic of Venice, relating to the saving of the drowned, as an introduction to the discipline of "Life-Saving" oriented swimming.
[The human typology: at the origin of the Italian school].
Figurative arts were the first supporters of typology inequalities. In fact in every time artists felt the need of looking for a system of measures fit for reproducing the armony of the human body as a "whole". Doctors generally neglected the anthropomorphic logic till modern times, mostly limiting themselves to the relationship among the various parts. Only later Quetelet fixed the first law, which allowed the consideration for the human kind unity. Starting from this principle a lot of schools developed at the end of the 20th century they dictated a great variety of typologie classifications. In Italy it was De Giovanni who came to the definition of "constitutional medicine", and later Viola and Pende referred to it. So some categories of individuals (biotypes) were outlined from the most tender years. This method proved to be indispensable, among other things, both to appreciate everybody's sporting bent and to start people in an athletic training, and to discover the causes of the symptoms of the disease--typical of growth--and to interfere with them in a prophylactic way, by means of fitting physical exercises too.
[Historical analysis of human deambulation and its conceptual' and technical developments].
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