The Forgotten Hysteria Over Malpractice

The forgotten third: liability insurance and the medical malpractice crisis.

Although the most visible manifestations of medical malpractice involve patient safety and the legal process, the availability and affordability of liability insurance largely determine the direction of medical malpractice policy. Scientific and industrial developments since the first modern malpractice crisis in the 1970s reveal major problems with the structure and regulation of liability ins...

Debate Over Medical Malpractice Liability Heats Up

Hysteria revisited.

Despite the attrition of psychoanalytic explanations for clinical conditions and the disappearance of “hysteria” from diagnostic lexicons, the phenomena first addressed in an orderly manner by Charcot and Freud continue to reassert themselves, as is apparent in the article by Vorhees in this issue of the JABFP. An elderly woman began to have spells of falling, paralysis, paresthesia, and uncont...

Overselling hysteria

O n February 4, 2014, The New York Times published an editorial “Overselling testosterone, dangerously”, in which it alleged that the rise in testosterone prescriptions was medically unwarranted, and that scientific studies suggesting an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) provided “the most compelling evidence yet that many American men have embarked on a perilous course of overtrea...

The Major Symptoms of Hysteria

interesting manner, that one gains pleasure as well as profit from reading them. Those who are not already acquainted with .the author's views should procure this book, which presents them mcst lucidly, and at moderate length. Professor Janet's work has done much to elucidate hysteria by a process of analysis of the psychical phenomena which lie at its root. We may remind our readers that accor...