Works by Eric J. Cassell
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- The healer's art.Eric J. Cassell -1976 - Cambridge: MIT Press." Dr. Cassell discusses the world of the sick, the healing connection and healer's battle, the role of omnipotence in the healer's art, illness and disease, and ...
- The Practice of Autonomy: Patients, Doctors, and Medical Decisions.Eric J. Cassell &Carl E. Schneider -2000 -Hastings Center Report 30 (5):46.
- The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine.David H. Smith,Erich H. Loewy &Eric J. Cassell -1992 -Hastings Center Report 22 (5):43.Book reviewed in this article: Suffering and the Beneficent Community: Beyond Libertarianism. By Erich H. Loewy. The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine. By Eric J. Cassell.
- Recognizing Suffering.Eric J. Cassell -1991 -Hastings Center Report 21 (3):24-24.Medicine and ethics alike must learn properly to attend to suffering. We can never truly experience another's distress. We can, however, learn to recognize the particular purposes, values, and aesthetic responses that shape the sense of self whose integrity is threatened by pain, disease, and the mischances of life.
- The Sorcerer's Broom: Medicine's Rampant Technology.Eric J. Cassell -1993 -Hastings Center Report 23 (6):32-39.Like the broom in “The Sorcerer's Apprentice,” technologies take on a life of their own. To bring them under control, doctors must learn to tolerate ambiguity, resist the lure of the immediate, cease fearing uncertainty, and rechannel their response to wonder.
- The Function of Medicine.Eric J. Cassell -1977 -Hastings Center Report 7 (6):16-19.
- The Principles of the Belmont Report Revisited: How Have Respect for Persons, Beneficence, and Justice Been Applied to Clinical Medicine?Eric J. Cassell -2000 -Hastings Center Report 30 (4):12-21.Although written primarily for medical research, the Belmont principles have permeated clinical medicine as well. In fact, they are part of a broad cultural shift that has dramatically reworked the relationship between doctor and patient. In the early 1950s, medicine was about making the patient better and maintaining optimism when the patient could not get better. By the 1990s, medicine was about the treatment of specific physiological systems, as directed by the patient, but as limited by the society's concern for (...) justice. (shrink)
- Life as a Work of Art.Eric J. Cassell -1984 -Hastings Center Report 14 (5):35-37.
- Illness and disease.Eric J. Cassell -1976 -Hastings Center Report 6 (2):27-37.
- (1 other version)Pain and suffering.Eric J. Cassell -1995 -Encyclopedia of Bioethics 4:1897-1905.
- The phenomenon of suffering and its relationship to pain.Eric J. Cassell -2001 - In S. Kay Toombs,Handbook of Phenomenology and Medicine. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 371--390.
- Medical Wisdom.J. Donald Boudreau &Eric J. Cassell -2021 -Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 64 (2):251-270.
- The body of the future.Eric J. Cassell -1992 - In Drew Leder,The body in medical thought and practice. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 233--249.
- Travelers in the Land of Sickness.Eric J. Cassell -2003 -Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 10 (3):225-226.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 10.3 (2003) 225-226 [Access article in PDF] Travelers in the Land of Sickness Eric J. Cassell THE PROBLEM OF knowing another person and the world in which that person lives, particularly someone with major mental illness, is addressed in this interesting and rich essay. The number of different metaphors and concepts Potter employs to describe the task of crossing into and then understanding the thoughts, (...) emotions, symptoms, constraints, context, and perspectives of another testifies to the difficulties involved.Yet, as I read the essay, it was not clear what the clinician world traveler, moral tourist, empathizer (and other categories) is supposed to do on the journey to another person. Why do we reach out to the sick person? What is it that we want to know or do that makes this trip necessary? Potter is primarily concerned with mental illness—the examples she cites are patients with schizophrenia—while my experience has in the main been with persons with physical illness, but for the moment, the differences are less important than the central lesson. The illness that the patient presents—the experience of the symptoms, the impairments, disability, and disruptions of the emotional and social existence that happen because of the disease result from an amalgam of the disease process with the specific nature of the sick person. There is no disease in pure form; there is no disease in abstract for clinicians. There is only this sick person. She correctly quotes me, because of all this, as pointing out the importance of integrating knowledge of this particular patient with the abstract knowledge of disease to understand the illness as it is expressed in this person. All to form a basis for the treatment of the patient and especially to help relieve suffering because suffering is always personal, particular, and individual. (It is important in thinking about this topic to remember that most serious diseases, psychiatric and otherwise, are chronic and take place over significant lived time. The acute schizophrenic symptoms or the acute infectious diseases, as dramatic as they are, distract attention from the importance of the place of the sick person.)In physical disease, our long (and continuing) history of separating human beings from nature and the body, and the importance medicine places on objectivity and the objective, have made the inevitable personalization of the disease and symptoms virtually invisible. After ages of explaining psychiatric diseases as the alienation of the person, and a long psychoanalytic period of finding their origins in the person, in the last 30 years these diseases have become increasingly objectified. The place of the person has been diminished as psychiatry has entered the DSM, neurotransmitter, and effective psychotropic drug era. For both physical and mental disease, however, and whatever the current ideology, the nature of person is crucial in determining the onset, diagnosis, course, treatment, and outcome of each illness. It is in order to have an impact on these crucial aspects of sickness that clinicians must come to know their patients to the degree possible. [End Page 225]But there is something more. Nancy Potter quotes a woman with schizophrenia as saying, "All that was my former self has crumbled and fallen together and a creature has emerged of whom I know nothing. She is a stranger to me... She is not real—she is not I... She is I—and because I still have myself on my hands, even if I am a maniac, I must deal with me somehow." (Potter, 2003, p. 215)Must she deal with this crazy self alone? Is that not what her doctors and caregivers are for? But how can they take care of her, protect her, keep what is left intact, and sustain her until she is (hopefully) better without knowing who she is? She makes clear in those few phrases that inside her there is a person with a past, a family, a world, a culture, a role(s) in life, relationships, a body, dreams for the future, things she does, and all the other things that make up a person. It is in... (shrink)
- Unanswered questions: Bioethics and human relationships.Eric J. Cassell -2007 -Hastings Center Report 37 (5):20-23.
- The nature of clinical medicine: the return of the clinician.Eric J. Cassell -2015 - New York: Oxford University Press.The goals of medicine -- A story about a patient with aortic stenosis -- What are facts in medicine? -- Clarify the chain of events that led to the present state : the case as a narrative -- The case of Myra Manner -- Examine your presuppositions and preconceptions -- Separate and examine the values at issue -- A question of judgment -- The patient, the doctor, and the relationship -- Observation, prognosis, and prognosticating -- Thinking in medicine -- Accepting (...) the challenge. (shrink)
- Medicine, Art of.Eric J. Cassell -2004 -Encyclopedia of Bioethics 3.
- The Importance of Understanding Suffering for Clinical Ethics.Eric J. Cassell -1991 -Journal of Clinical Ethics 2 (2):81-82.
- The Schiavo Case: A Medical Perspective.Eric J. Cassell -2005 -Hastings Center Report 35 (3):22.
- The place of hope in clinical medicine.Mary A. Brooksbank &Eric J. Cassell -2005 - In J. Elliot ,Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Hope. Nova Science Publishers. pp. 231--239.Export citation
Bookmark - Commentary on the essay of Joseph Agassi, "liberal forensic medicine".Eric J. Cassell -1978 -Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 3 (3):242-244.
- Dying in a Technological Society.Eric J. Cassell -1974 -The Hastings Center Studies 2 (2):31.No categories
- Making and Escaping Moral Decisions.Eric J. Cassell -1973 -The Hastings Center Studies 1 (2):53.No categories
- On the Destructiveness of Scientism.Eric J. Cassell -2015 -Hastings Center Report 45 (1):46-47.Healers: Extraordinary Clinicians at Work, by David Schenck and Larry R. Churchill, and What Patients Teach: The Everyday Ethics of Health Care, by Churchill, Joseph B. Fanning, and Schenck are both important and thought‐inspiring books. For the first, Schenck and Churchill recruited fifty practitioners, mostly physicians but some clinicians who practice alternative therapies, “identified by their peers as excellent healers,” and interviewed them to find out what they did to establish a good relationship with their patients. The results of their (...) interviews and how they wrote their book makes this the best and most concrete understanding of a necessary step to healing that I have read. What Patients Teach examines the patients’ perspective about forming relationships with their clinicians. The patients’ clinicians were asked to nominate patients to be interviewed to help answer the question. This volume, while important, is less extraordinary than the first because we hear less what the patients want to say and more what the authors want to tell us. That aside, taken together, these two books are a major advance in the literature of healing. (shrink)
- Rationing and Reality.Eric J. Cassell,John M. Freeman &Robert J. Wells -2011 -Hastings Center Report 41 (6):4-6.To the Editor: Daniel Callahan is correct when, in “Rationing: Theory, Politics, and Passions”, he tells us that the combination of ever-rising medical costs and ever-increasing demand for expensive resources by physicians and their patients will—in the absence of any workable, generally acceptable mode of official rationing—lead to covert rationing. Or, more precisely, it will encourage us to extend the covert rationing that already exists, where those with more get more. As things stand now, this is unavoidable. However..
- Thinking about Death as a Wax AppleThinking Clearly about Death.Eric J. Cassell &F. Rosenberg -1984 -Hastings Center Report 14 (2):43.Book reviewed in this article: Thinking Clearly About Death. By Jay F. Rosenberg.
- Toward a Science of Particulars.Eric J. Cassell -1986 -Hastings Center Report 16 (5):12-14.
- The Less Said the Better?Eric J. Cassell -1981 -Hastings Center Report 11 (6):45-45.
- (1 other version)The nature of suffering: and the goals of medicine.Eric J. Cassell -1991 - New York: Oxford University Press.The Nature of Suffering underscores the change that is taking place in medicine from a basic concern with disease to a greater focus on the sick person. Cassell centers his discussion on the problem of suffering because, he says, its recognition and relief are a test of the adequacy of any system of medicine. He describes what suffering is and its relationship to the sick person: bodies do not suffer, people do. An exclusive concern with scientific knowledge of the body (...) and disease, therefore, impedes an understanding of suffering and diminishes the care of the suffering patient. The growing criticism that medicine is not sufficiently humanistic does not go deep enough to provide a basis for a new understanding of medicine. New concepts in medicine must have their basis in its history and in the development of ideas about disease and treatment. Cassell uses many stories about patients to demonstrate that, despite the current dominance of science and technology, there can be no diagnosis, search for the cause of the patient's disease, prognostication, or treatment without consideration of the individual sick person. Recent trends in medicine and society, Cassell believes, show that it is time for the sick person to be not merely an important concern for physicians but the central focus of medicine. He addresses the exciting problems involved in such a shift. In this new medicine, doctors would have to know the person as well as they know the disease. What are persons, however, and how are doctors to comprehend them? The kinds of knowledge involved are varied, including values and aesthetics as well as science. In the process of knowing the experience of patient and doctor move to center stage. He believes that the exploration of the person will engage medicine in the 21st century just as understanding the body has occupied the last hundred years. (shrink)
- Case Studies: The 'Student Doctor' and a Wary Patient.Gerald Dworkin &Eric J. Cassell -1982 -Hastings Center Report 12 (1):27.
- Case Studies in Bioethics: Nurturing a Defective Newborn.Richard M. Pauli &Eric J. Cassell -1978 -Hastings Center Report 8 (1):13.
- Talking with Patients. [REVIEW]Jay Katz &Eric J. Cassell -1986 -Hastings Center Report 16 (3):41.Book reviewed in this article: Talking with Patients. By Eric J. Cassell.
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