Arturo Castiglioni

Arturo Castiglioni 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.

Literary works

Il volto di Ippocrate, 1925Storia della medicina, 1927Italian medicine, 1932The history of tuberculosis, 1933The renaissance of medicine in Italy, 1934Incantesimo e magia, 1934L'orto della sanita, 1935