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Cleveland State University

Journal

1957

Stress

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Medical Evaluation Of Mental Pain And Suffering, Carl E. Wasmuth Jan 1957

Medical Evaluation Of Mental Pain And Suffering, Carl E. Wasmuth

Cleveland State Law Review

What the attorney calls "mental pain and suffering" and emotional disturbance is identified by the physician as stress, a concept easier to appreciate than to define. The term was probably borrowed from the language of the engineer. Selye, the chief proponent of the term in medicine, employs it to describe the effects of external influences upon the human mind and body. The lawyer seeking damages for his client on the basis of mental and emotional disturbances (mental "pain and suffering") finds proof difficult. Until the sciences supply an accurate measure of mental and emotional disturbances due to stress, the legal …


Premenstrual Tension In Automobile Accidents, Naoma Lee Stewart Jan 1957

Premenstrual Tension In Automobile Accidents, Naoma Lee Stewart

Cleveland State Law Review

The scope of possible legal problems involved in the existence of this physical and mental dysfunction caused by premenstrual is very wide. For the sake of brevity the writer would like to separate the discussions of criminal and civil responsibility, and make this initial study one which is specifically limited to the civil rights and liabilities of women involved in automobile accidents. It is emphasized that the effects of premenstrual tension in torts are not as clearly pertinent as they are in crimes. But they are pertinent.