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ANTHROPOLOGIST

Franco Basaglia

1924 - 1980

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Franco Basaglia (Italian: [ˈfraŋko baˈzaʎʎa]; 11 March 1924 – 29 August 1980) was an Italian psychiatrist, neurologist,: 32  and professor,: 123 : 183  who proposed the dismantling of psychiatric hospitals, pioneer of the modern concept of mental health, Italian psychiatry reformer,: 213  figurehead and founder of Democratic Psychiatry,: 165 : 126  architect,: 8  and principal proponent of Law 180,: 70  which abolished mental hospitals in Italy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franco Basaglia has received more than 126,006 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Franco Basaglia is the 34th most popular anthropologist (down from 31st in 2019), the 2,310th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,126th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Italian Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Franco Basaglia ranks 34 out of 69Before him are Marc Augé, Marshall Sahlins, Jacques de Morgan, Ann Dunham, Pierre Clastres, and Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov. After him are Birutė Galdikas, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Bill Mollison, Fredrik Barth, Marcel Griaule, and John Lloyd Stephens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Franco Basaglia ranks 158Before him are Donatas Banionis, Mohammed Rafi, Margit Sandemo, David Cox, Lubomír Štrougal, and M. Karunanidhi. After him are Johannes Mario Simmel, Max Roach, S. R. Nathan, Gevork Vartanian, Haim Bar-Lev, and Ken Tyrrell. Among people deceased in 1980, Franco Basaglia ranks 107Before him are Barbara O'Neil, Richard Chase, Luigi Longo, Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Mohammed Rafi, and Yahya Khan. After him are Héctor José Cámpora, Hellmuth Walter, Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Rolf Nevanlinna, Justas Paleckis, and José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Franco Basaglia ranks 2,310 out of 4,668Before him are Eduardo di Capua (1865), George P. Cosmatos (1941), Lawrence Justinian (1381), Azzone Visconti (1302), Jacob Hutter (1500), and Giovanna Garzoni (1600). After him are Alessandro Baricco (1958), Félix Fénéon (1861), Quintus Caecilius Metellus (-300), Ippolito d'Este (1479), Federico Borromeo (1564), and Bernardo Buontalenti (1531).

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Italy

Among anthropologists born in Italy, Franco Basaglia ranks 2Before him are Mary Douglas (1921). After him are Paolo Mantegazza (1831).