Article ID: CBB731817599

The anecdotal patient: brain injury and the magnitude of harm (2022)

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In this study of the history of brain injury, I take up the discursive study of medical cases as a genre for the purposes of illustrating clinically important, philosophically meaningful and socially pertinent elements of medical patients’ lives. My objective is to assert the value of single cases, which derives from the way they allow others insight into significant and otherwise often overlooked elements of personal, social and future experience that speak to the harm from such injuries. Drawing on examples of brain damage recorded in clinical literature, textbooks, legal documents and popular books published over the last two centuries, I contrast the power of those texts’ single cases with qualifications and equivocations about the status of such evidence as it emerges in clinical practice and courtroom settings. I argue that single cases illustrate loss, redemption, context and narrative in ways that cannot be dismissed as merely anecdotal and that they point the way towards clinical discovery and patient survival.

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Authors & Contributors
David Kieran
Kress, W. John
Joanna Park
Venla Oikkonen
Louise Neilson
Burghardt, Ivonne
Concepts
Research methods
Case studies
Traumatic brain injuries
Experiments and experimentation
Philosophy of science
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Early modern
Medieval
20th century
Places
United States
Edinburgh
Arizona (U.S.)
Latin America
Germany
Finland
Institutions
Helsingin yliopisto (Finland)
Royal Edinburgh Asylum
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