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Fractures : = A History and Philosophy of Patient Suffering in 20th-Century American Medicine.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Fractures :/
其他題名:	A History and Philosophy of Patient Suffering in 20th-Century American Medicine.
作者:	Duffee, Charlotte Mary.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (216 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-06, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-06B.
標題:	Medical ethics. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29392720click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798357551740

Fractures : = A History and Philosophy of Patient Suffering in 20th-Century American Medicine.
Duffee, Charlotte Mary.

Fractures :A History and Philosophy of Patient Suffering in 20th-Century American Medicine. - 1 online resource (216 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-06, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

My dissertation explores the history and philosophy of patient suffering in 20th-century American medicine. Chapter One argues that historians of medicine colloquially synonymize suffering with related phenomena, such as pain, which risks treating suffering as a transhistorical object. That is a problem, first because suffering appears to be historically distinct, and second because neglecting it has undesirable consequences in the history of medicine and beyond. In response, Chapters Two and Three modestly enlarge the historical scholarship by presenting an intellectual and cultural history of American physician Eric Cassell's (1928-2021) influential theory of suffering. This narrative argues that legal influences in Cassell's early intellectual development and the medico-legal milieu in which he wrote provided the impetus, concepts, and language for his seminal theory. Chapter Four brings my historical findings to bear on current philosophical debates over Cassell's view. Some critics argue that his account is too narrowly focused on damage, an objection I contextualize historically using the legal descriptions of suffering that influenced him by way of an explosion in medical malpractice lawsuits. My historical research thus lends credence to existing philosophical critiques. To further reinforce these critiques, I also introduce a case of suffering excluded by Cassell's narrow account, which I call 'paradoxical purposes.' On the basis of this exclusion, I conclude that his view does not exhaust suffering as he intended. To rectify this shortcoming, Chapter Five amends his theory in two different ways. Both locate personal integrity, which Cassell says suffering affects, on a spectrum that ranges by 'existential degrees.' I refer to the lower end of this spectrum as 'local suffering,' which includes paradoxical purposes, whereas Cassell's focus is on the higher end, 'global suffering.' Chapter Six explores two ways scholars can theorize about suffering along this spectrum. One exhausts suffering in general accounts, which I refer to as 'monistic theories.' The other involves a multiplicity of narrower models aimed at types of suffering, which I call 'pluralistic theories.' Next, I associate these theories with the conceptual questions to which they are most relevant in a bid to facilitate greater collaboration among theorists.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798357551740Subjects--Topical Terms:

526828
Medical ethics.
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BioethicsIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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