Luca Borghi
Biography
Luca Borghi was born in Bologna on 18 July 1962.
He graduated in Philosophy of Science in 1987 at the Catholic University of Milan with a thesis on the body-mind problem.
He is Associate Professor of History of Medicine at the Departmental Faculty of Medicine and Surgery ofUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, where he directs the Research Unit in History of Science and Technology. He also teaches "History of Science and Technology" at the Departmental Faculty of Engineering of the same University.
He has promoted and is Main administrator of "Himetop - The History of Medicine Topographical Database" (http://himetop.net), an international web 2.0 project for the identification and enhancement of the material traces left by the history of medicine and related disciplines.
Curriculum
From 2020 to today
• Associate Professor of History of Medicine
• Head of the History of Science and Technology Research Unit
From the 2017 to the 2020
• Director of FAST - Institute of Philosophy of Scientific and Technical Action, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome
From the 2008 to the 2017
• Member of the Board of Directors of FAST - Institute of Philosophy of Scientific and Technical Action, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome
From the 2009 to the 2014
• Member of the Board of Directors of the SDI - Interfaculty Educational Service, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome (Head of Education)
From the 2008 to the 2015
• Adjunct Professor of History of Medicine and History of Science and Techniques at the Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome
PUBLICATIONS
Books (2018 to present):
• BORGHI Luca, Sense of Humor. The Human Factor in the History of Medicine, Amazon KDP, 2022, pp. 399
• LIPPI D., BORGHI L., The pen of Florence Nightingale (Florence 1820-London 1910). Aphorisms and reflections of the founder of modern nursing, Angelo Pontecorboli Editore, Florence 2020, pp. 105
• BORGHI L., Osler and Italy. An intermittent love story, Amazon KDP, 2019, pp. 190
• ANDRONICO G., BORGHI L., Under this sky. Notes and memories of the early years of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Campus Bio-Medico University Editions, Rome 2018
• BORGHI L., Brief history of medicine, Ediciones Rialp, Madrid 2018, pp. 370
