Positivismo e medicina legale nella costruzione ideologica dello stato unitario

The essay aims to outline, through the analysis of the debate that develops within the scientific journals of alienist physicians, the relationship between the positivistic scientific conceptions as expressed in the Italy of the first years of the Unity, and the institutions of the new state. This with the specific reference to some cases of political subversion of the reference age and the consequent debate. [Publisher's text].