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13 February 2025
Vol. 42 No. 1 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.4081/gimle.438

ACTUALITY AND ORIGINALITY IN THE SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT OF ANGELO IANNACCONE (1925-1982)

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Occupational medicine, history of medicine, industrial hygiene, chronobiology, ergonomics, neurotoxicology, education.
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Angelo Sacco
angelo.sacco@alice.it
Spresal, Azienda USL Roma 2, Roma, Italy.
Nicola Magnavita
Department of Woman/Child & Public Health, Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy. Post-graduate School of Occupational Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.

Background. Angelo lannaccone is certainly one of the most important personalities in the field of occupational medicine of the last century.
Aims. The fiftieth anniversary of the Post-graduate School of Occupational Medicine of the Catholic University of Rome gives us the opportunity to define this extraordinary figure of man and scientist, at over 35 years from his death.
Results. Prof. lannaccone was among the very first, if not the fürst to deal with chronobiology and occupational ergonomics in Italy, adopting the modern perspective of "upstream" prevention, since the design phase, which had to be based on the adaptation of work to man and not vice versa. He carried out important and pioneering studies on the effects of benzene on the hematopoietic apparatus and of various industrial toxicants on the neuroendocrine system. In establishing the formative principles for the occupational physician, he devoted a significant space to industrial hygiene, in the interdisciplinary perspective of prevention sciences. He gave a significant contribution to the scientific society of occupational medicine, first as a member of the board, then as the president of the Italian Society of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene. He realized the Institute of Occupational Medicine of the Catholic University of Rome and founded the post-graduate school.
Conclusions. Prof. lannaccone's contribution to occupational health and industrial hygiene emphasized applied research and prevention in the workplace.

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ACTUALITY AND ORIGINALITY IN THE SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT OF ANGELO IANNACCONE (1925-1982). (2025). Giornale Italiano Di Medicina Del Lavoro Ed Ergonomia, 42(1), 44-47. https://doi.org/10.4081/gimle.438
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