Pathologizing Pathos: Suffering, Technocentrism, and Law in Twentieth-Century American Medicine
This article tracks the development of his theory of suffering and its global success in transforming tragic medical experiences into diagnosable clinical entities. Beginning with his intellectual development in the 1960s, this article traces Cassell's initial interest in suffering first to his early research on truth-telling and autonomy, followed by his pioneering work in bioethics. Although closely aligned with philosophy, much of the institutional success of bioethics came from American law, which affected Cassell's theorizing. At the same time, doctors experienced a growth in medical malpractice lawsuits, driven in la...
Source: Medical History - November 11, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Charlotte Duffee Source Type: research
Notes from the Front: The Casebook of a Renaissance Hospital Surgeon
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Oct 17:jrad064. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad064. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay uses the unpublished casebook kept by the Tuscan surgeon Giovanbattista Nardi to examine the provision of urgent medical care in sixteenth-century Italian hospitals. Most major hospitals on the peninsula maintained separate therapeutic spaces known as medicherie for this purpose. Written in the 1580s while Nardi worked as a staff surgeon at a Florentine civic hospital, this rare surgical casebook provides insight into the types of institutional resources devoted to acute medical problems; the clientele seeking i...
Source: Medical History - October 17, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sharon Strocchia Source Type: research
Notes from the Front: The Casebook of a Renaissance Hospital Surgeon
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Oct 17:jrad064. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad064. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay uses the unpublished casebook kept by the Tuscan surgeon Giovanbattista Nardi to examine the provision of urgent medical care in sixteenth-century Italian hospitals. Most major hospitals on the peninsula maintained separate therapeutic spaces known as medicherie for this purpose. Written in the 1580s while Nardi worked as a staff surgeon at a Florentine civic hospital, this rare surgical casebook provides insight into the types of institutional resources devoted to acute medical problems; the clientele seeking i...
Source: Medical History - October 17, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sharon Strocchia Source Type: research
Notes from the Front: The Casebook of a Renaissance Hospital Surgeon
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Oct 17:jrad064. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad064. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay uses the unpublished casebook kept by the Tuscan surgeon Giovanbattista Nardi to examine the provision of urgent medical care in sixteenth-century Italian hospitals. Most major hospitals on the peninsula maintained separate therapeutic spaces known as medicherie for this purpose. Written in the 1580s while Nardi worked as a staff surgeon at a Florentine civic hospital, this rare surgical casebook provides insight into the types of institutional resources devoted to acute medical problems; the clientele seeking i...
Source: Medical History - October 17, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sharon Strocchia Source Type: research
Notes from the Front: The Casebook of a Renaissance Hospital Surgeon
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Oct 17:jrad064. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad064. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay uses the unpublished casebook kept by the Tuscan surgeon Giovanbattista Nardi to examine the provision of urgent medical care in sixteenth-century Italian hospitals. Most major hospitals on the peninsula maintained separate therapeutic spaces known as medicherie for this purpose. Written in the 1580s while Nardi worked as a staff surgeon at a Florentine civic hospital, this rare surgical casebook provides insight into the types of institutional resources devoted to acute medical problems; the clientele seeking i...
Source: Medical History - October 17, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sharon Strocchia Source Type: research
Notes from the Front: The Casebook of a Renaissance Hospital Surgeon
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Oct 17:jrad064. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad064. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay uses the unpublished casebook kept by the Tuscan surgeon Giovanbattista Nardi to examine the provision of urgent medical care in sixteenth-century Italian hospitals. Most major hospitals on the peninsula maintained separate therapeutic spaces known as medicherie for this purpose. Written in the 1580s while Nardi worked as a staff surgeon at a Florentine civic hospital, this rare surgical casebook provides insight into the types of institutional resources devoted to acute medical problems; the clientele seeking i...
Source: Medical History - October 17, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sharon Strocchia Source Type: research
Notes from the Front: The Casebook of a Renaissance Hospital Surgeon
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Oct 17:jrad064. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad064. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay uses the unpublished casebook kept by the Tuscan surgeon Giovanbattista Nardi to examine the provision of urgent medical care in sixteenth-century Italian hospitals. Most major hospitals on the peninsula maintained separate therapeutic spaces known as medicherie for this purpose. Written in the 1580s while Nardi worked as a staff surgeon at a Florentine civic hospital, this rare surgical casebook provides insight into the types of institutional resources devoted to acute medical problems; the clientele seeking i...
Source: Medical History - October 17, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sharon Strocchia Source Type: research
Notes from the Front: The Casebook of a Renaissance Hospital Surgeon
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Oct 17:jrad064. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad064. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay uses the unpublished casebook kept by the Tuscan surgeon Giovanbattista Nardi to examine the provision of urgent medical care in sixteenth-century Italian hospitals. Most major hospitals on the peninsula maintained separate therapeutic spaces known as medicherie for this purpose. Written in the 1580s while Nardi worked as a staff surgeon at a Florentine civic hospital, this rare surgical casebook provides insight into the types of institutional resources devoted to acute medical problems; the clientele seeking i...
Source: Medical History - October 17, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sharon Strocchia Source Type: research
Notes from the Front: The Casebook of a Renaissance Hospital Surgeon
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Oct 17:jrad064. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad064. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay uses the unpublished casebook kept by the Tuscan surgeon Giovanbattista Nardi to examine the provision of urgent medical care in sixteenth-century Italian hospitals. Most major hospitals on the peninsula maintained separate therapeutic spaces known as medicherie for this purpose. Written in the 1580s while Nardi worked as a staff surgeon at a Florentine civic hospital, this rare surgical casebook provides insight into the types of institutional resources devoted to acute medical problems; the clientele seeking i...
Source: Medical History - October 17, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sharon Strocchia Source Type: research
Notes from the Front: The Casebook of a Renaissance Hospital Surgeon
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Oct 17:jrad064. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad064. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay uses the unpublished casebook kept by the Tuscan surgeon Giovanbattista Nardi to examine the provision of urgent medical care in sixteenth-century Italian hospitals. Most major hospitals on the peninsula maintained separate therapeutic spaces known as medicherie for this purpose. Written in the 1580s while Nardi worked as a staff surgeon at a Florentine civic hospital, this rare surgical casebook provides insight into the types of institutional resources devoted to acute medical problems; the clientele seeking i...
Source: Medical History - October 17, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sharon Strocchia Source Type: research
Notes from the Front: The Casebook of a Renaissance Hospital Surgeon
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Oct 17:jrad064. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad064. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay uses the unpublished casebook kept by the Tuscan surgeon Giovanbattista Nardi to examine the provision of urgent medical care in sixteenth-century Italian hospitals. Most major hospitals on the peninsula maintained separate therapeutic spaces known as medicherie for this purpose. Written in the 1580s while Nardi worked as a staff surgeon at a Florentine civic hospital, this rare surgical casebook provides insight into the types of institutional resources devoted to acute medical problems; the clientele seeking i...
Source: Medical History - October 17, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sharon Strocchia Source Type: research
Notes from the Front: The Casebook of a Renaissance Hospital Surgeon
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Oct 17:jrad064. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad064. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay uses the unpublished casebook kept by the Tuscan surgeon Giovanbattista Nardi to examine the provision of urgent medical care in sixteenth-century Italian hospitals. Most major hospitals on the peninsula maintained separate therapeutic spaces known as medicherie for this purpose. Written in the 1580s while Nardi worked as a staff surgeon at a Florentine civic hospital, this rare surgical casebook provides insight into the types of institutional resources devoted to acute medical problems; the clientele seeking i...
Source: Medical History - October 17, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sharon Strocchia Source Type: research
Notes from the Front: The Casebook of a Renaissance Hospital Surgeon
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Oct 17:jrad064. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad064. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay uses the unpublished casebook kept by the Tuscan surgeon Giovanbattista Nardi to examine the provision of urgent medical care in sixteenth-century Italian hospitals. Most major hospitals on the peninsula maintained separate therapeutic spaces known as medicherie for this purpose. Written in the 1580s while Nardi worked as a staff surgeon at a Florentine civic hospital, this rare surgical casebook provides insight into the types of institutional resources devoted to acute medical problems; the clientele seeking i...
Source: Medical History - October 17, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sharon Strocchia Source Type: research
Notes from the Front: The Casebook of a Renaissance Hospital Surgeon
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Oct 17:jrad064. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad064. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay uses the unpublished casebook kept by the Tuscan surgeon Giovanbattista Nardi to examine the provision of urgent medical care in sixteenth-century Italian hospitals. Most major hospitals on the peninsula maintained separate therapeutic spaces known as medicherie for this purpose. Written in the 1580s while Nardi worked as a staff surgeon at a Florentine civic hospital, this rare surgical casebook provides insight into the types of institutional resources devoted to acute medical problems; the clientele seeking i...
Source: Medical History - October 17, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sharon Strocchia Source Type: research
Notes from the Front: The Casebook of a Renaissance Hospital Surgeon
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Oct 17:jrad064. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad064. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay uses the unpublished casebook kept by the Tuscan surgeon Giovanbattista Nardi to examine the provision of urgent medical care in sixteenth-century Italian hospitals. Most major hospitals on the peninsula maintained separate therapeutic spaces known as medicherie for this purpose. Written in the 1580s while Nardi worked as a staff surgeon at a Florentine civic hospital, this rare surgical casebook provides insight into the types of institutional resources devoted to acute medical problems; the clientele seeking i...
Source: Medical History - October 17, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sharon Strocchia Source Type: research
