2016-2017

Funded by: Piedmont Region, Italy (LR 58/1978)

Principal Investigator: Raffaella Scarpa

The Medical School of Turin: the medical consultations of the XVIII century kept in the libraries of Turin is a research project aimed at collecting and transcribing a corpus of medical consultations that have played a major role in the knowledge and diffusion of modern medical science. 

The transcripts of the texts, together with the details of the project, can be found in the dedicated website [see]. 

2013-2015

Funded by: Department of Humanities at the University of Turin (Italy)

Principal Investigator: Raffaella Scarpa

Language and mental disease: history, methods and analysis is a research dedicated to mental disease through the lenses of language in a diachronic perspective.