Emanuela Setti Carraro practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Emanuela Setti Carraro as Italian nurse, victim of the Sicilian Mafia (1950–1982).
Emanuela Setti Carraro was born at Borgosesia in 1950. Her recorded nationality is Italy.
Antibiotics, imaging and the randomised trial defined twentieth-century medicine; evidence replaced authority as the standard.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
Recognition followed: Gold medal of Merit Croce Rossa Italiana.
That the work was done from Italy matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Emanuela Setti Carraro died in 1982, aged 32. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Gold medal of Merit Croce Rossa Italiana
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