Research Catalog

Title

Whiplash and other useful illnesses / Andrew Malleson.

Author

Malleson, Andrew

Publication

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002.

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Description

viii, 527 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Whiplash, first described in a medical journal in 1953, now occurs so frequently that in the U.S. alone its annual cost is estimated at between$13 and$18 billion dollars. The author contends that whiplash is nothing more than a strain in the neck and, like most other strains, heals in a matter of days and weeks.

Subject

• Canada
• Health Care Costs
• Jurisprudence
• Medical care, Cost of > Canada
• Medical jurisprudence > Canada
• Personal injuries > Canada
• Whiplash Injuries > therapy
• Whiplash injuries > Social aspects > Canada
• Whiplash injuries > Treatment > Canada

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-511) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Healthcare Entrepreneurs in Search of Work -- Pt. 1. Finessing Whiplash Into a Permanent Disability -- 1. Making Whiplash Sound Serious: Caveat Lector -- 2. Whiplash and Poor Science in Medical Journals -- 3. Bumper Kisses and Whiplash Severity -- 4. Sanitizing the Symptoms of Distress -- 5. Copycats and Fashionable Illnesses -- Pt. 2. Quest for the Mythical Whiplash Injury -- 6. Enigmas of the Human Spine -- 7. Medico-legal and Psycho-social Spine -- 8. Putting the Bite into Whiplash -- 9. Whiplash Rescues Some ENT Surgeons -- 10. Whiplash: Head Injury or Legal Headache? -- 11. Accidents, Illness Behaviour, and Chronic Pain -- 12. Fibromyalgia: A Tender Point? -- 13. Fibromyalgia: A Case in Point -- 14. Whiplash: An Eye to the Main Chance? -- Pt. 3. Fraud and the Medical-Legal Quagmire -- 15. Post-traumatic Turbulence -- 16. Inverse Paradox and the Period of Meditation -- 17. Lawyers, Junk Science, and Chicanery -- 18. Pain and Suffering: Calculating the Incalculable -- 19. Jumpers and Add-ons; Slippers and Yankers -- 20. Hysteria and the "M" Diagnosis -- 21. "Cured by a Verdict?" -- Pt. 4. Treating the Treatment -- 22. Making Victims of Ourselves -- 23. Treatment Exuberance and Serendipity -- 24. Medical Decision-Making: Getting it Right -- 25. Faith, Magic, and the Search for Alternative Care -- 26. Medicine: "A Disabling Profession"? -- 27. Cutting Healthcare Down to Size. App. 2. Use of Prospective Studies and RCTS -- App. 3. Evidence Against Residual Brain Injury Being the Cause of Post-Concussion Syndrome after Minor Head Injury -- App. 4. Overvaluation of Healthcare.

ISBN

0773523332 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002512019

OCLC

48229990

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library