Ugo Cerletti practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Ugo Cerletti as Italian neurologist (1877–1963).
Ugo Cerletti was born at Conegliano in 1877. His recorded nationality is Italy.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at Sapienza University of Rome, University of Bari and University of Genoa.
The recorded fields of work are psychiatry, neurology and neurobiology.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Italy matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Ugo Cerletti died in 1963, aged 86. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Sapienza University of Rome, University of Bari and University of Genoa
- Fields: psychiatry, neurology and neurobiology
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