Franz Anton Mesmer, an introverted personality in medicine and film
This paper focuses on a controversial figure in Medicine: Franz Anton Mesmer, who lived during the 18th century and the early 19th century. A biographical context, supported in different authors, explains his professional heterodoxy and his eventual legacy to Medicine, providing simultaneously a ref...
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| description | This paper focuses on a controversial figure in Medicine: Franz Anton Mesmer, who lived during the 18th century and the early 19th century. A biographical context, supported in different authors, explains his professional heterodoxy and his eventual legacy to Medicine, providing simultaneously a referential framework for the equally debatable film Mesmer (1994) and allowing a comparison between the historical truthfulness and the non historical changes made in favour of cinematographic language. Historical film with well-matched wardrobe, approaches to us a polemic physician considered just a medical pioneer or, in contrast, a mere fake linked with occultism and swindle. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-632c3581dc524b5a827010874cd8f1bb2022-12-22T02:25:34ZengEdiciones Universidad de SalamancaRevista de Medicina y Cine / Journal of Medicine and Movies1885-52102016-09-0181121812549Franz Anton Mesmer, an introverted personality in medicine and filmAlberto Enrique D’OTTAVIO0Universidad Nacional de RosarioThis paper focuses on a controversial figure in Medicine: Franz Anton Mesmer, who lived during the 18th century and the early 19th century. A biographical context, supported in different authors, explains his professional heterodoxy and his eventual legacy to Medicine, providing simultaneously a referential framework for the equally debatable film Mesmer (1994) and allowing a comparison between the historical truthfulness and the non historical changes made in favour of cinematographic language. Historical film with well-matched wardrobe, approaches to us a polemic physician considered just a medical pioneer or, in contrast, a mere fake linked with occultism and swindle.https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/medicina_y_cine/article/view/13738mesmermagnetismo animalmedicinacine. |
| spellingShingle | Alberto Enrique D’OTTAVIO Franz Anton Mesmer, an introverted personality in medicine and film Revista de Medicina y Cine / Journal of Medicine and Movies mesmer magnetismo animal medicina cine. |
| title | Franz Anton Mesmer, an introverted personality in medicine and film |
| title_full | Franz Anton Mesmer, an introverted personality in medicine and film |
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| title_short | Franz Anton Mesmer, an introverted personality in medicine and film |
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| topic | mesmer magnetismo animal medicina cine. |
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