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How many of the causes now before the Congregation for the Causes of Saints rest on a healing later reclassified by medicine, and has any canonisation been reopened on that ground?

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The Consulta Medica is asked whether a recovery is explicable by the medicine of the day, and the medicine of the day changes. No public record shows whether findings have been revisited as diagnostic categories moved, and the acts of individual causes are not generally published in full.

What would resolve this Access to the medical dossiers of closed causes, or a published retrospective by the Congregation itself, examined by clinicians against current diagnostic criteria.
OpenHistory of medicine; canon lawKenneth L. Woodward, Making Saints: How the Catholic Church Determines Who Becomes a Saint, Who Doesn't, and Why
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Source Making Saints: How the Catholic Church Determines Who Becomes a Saint, Who Doesn't, and WhyKenneth L. Woodward
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Making Saints: How the Catholic Church Determines Who Becomes a Saint, Who Doesn't, and Why
Kenneth L. Woodward, Simon and Schuster, 1990Chapters on the medical consultors
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