TY - JOUR PY - 2009 SN - 1972-5582 T1 - Archivio fascista di medicina politica JO - RIVISTA SPERIMENTALE DI FRENIATRIA DA - 4/15/2009 12:00:00 AM DO - 10.3280/RSF2009-001004 UR - http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/Scheda_rivista.aspx?idArticolo=35641 AU - Paolella, Francesco SP - 37 EP - 59 IS - 1 VL - CXXXIII LA - IT AB - Archivio fascista di medicina politica - This paper describes the birth and presents the main themes of the journal "Archivio fascista di medicina politica" published in the years 1927-1932. The author first discusses the notion of political medicine in fascist ideology, and then analyses the health, social and demographic policies of the fascist regime. He compares political medicine with adjacent disciplines such as social medicine, occupational health and forensic medicine. In the second part of the paper, the author presents some articles - published in this journal - on political medicine related to psychiatry and criminology: i.e. vocational guidance, the fight against alcoholism, the debate on the reform of the penal code ("codice Rocco"), the prevention of crime and above all of juvenile delinquency. Keywords: political medicine, fascism, social diseases, criminology. PB - FrancoAngeli ER -