Mol--summarizing Mark Sullivan--says that "[c]ontemporary medicine [...] inherited its dualism not from Descartes, but from Bichat"
Bichat -- early pathologist
"His work marks the moment in the early ninteenth century when pathology came to take its foundational place in medicine"
Sullivan: "For Bichat, the medical subject and the medical object were not two different substances within the same individual, but two different individuals: one alive and one dead."