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Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo 2018 Volume 146, Issue 11-12, Pages: 700-706
https://doi.org/10.2298/SARH180130029N
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Suicide - the monograph and suicide of Professor Milovan Milovanović

Nikolić Slobodan (Institut za sudsku medicinu, Medicinski fakultet, Beograd)
Živković Vladimir ORCID iD icon (Institut za sudsku medicinu, Medicinski fakultet, Beograd)

The Institute of Forensic Medicine, as part of the University School of Medicine in Belgrade, Serbia, was founded in 1923 by Professor Milovan Milovanović (1884–1948). In addition to several medical textbooks in modern Serbian for medical students, as well as 37 original papers published in Serbian, German, and French medical journals, Professor Milovanović also published a famous monograph entitled “Suicide” in 1929. In 1948, Professor Milovanović himself committed suicide under obscure circumstances. The reason he committed suicide remains unknown. In this paper we tried to reconstruct the way he wrote his monograph using data from his hand-writing manuscripts preserved at the Institute of Forensic Medicine. Also, some new data about his suicide have been exposed. Since 2008, the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Belgrade has been named after Professor Milovan Milovanović.

Keywords: suicide, forensic pathology, history of medicine, Serbia