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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. In Whiplash and Other Useful Illnesses Andrew Malleson contends that whiplash is nothing more than a strain of the neck and, li...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Malleson, Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2002.
Colección:CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
Temas:
Medical jurisprudence.
Whiplash injuries > Treatment.
Medical care, Cost of.
Medical jurisprudence > Canada.
Personal injuries > Canada.
Medical care, Cost of > Canada.
Health Care Costs
Jurisprudence
Whiplash Injuries > therapy
Forensic Medicine
Médecine légale > Canada.
Syndrome cervical traumatique > Traitement > Canada.
Dommage corporel > Canada.
Soins médicaux > Coût > Canada.
Médecine légale.
Syndrome cervical traumatique > Traitement.
Soins médicaux > Coût.
forensic medicine.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
Personal injuries.
M̌decine ľgale > Canada.
Canada.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Whiplash and Other Useful Illnesses
  • Healthcare Entrepreneurs in Search of Work
  • part one 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
  • part two The Quest for the Mythical Whiplash Injury
  • 6 The Enigmas of the Human Spine
  • 7 The Medico-legal and Psycho- social Spine
  • 8 Putting the Bite into Whiplash9 Whiplash Rescues Some ENY 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?
  • part three Fraud and the Medical- Legal Quagmire
  • 15 Post- traumatic Turbulence
  • 16 The 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 Yankers20 Hysteria and the “Mâ€? Diagnosis
  • 21 “ Cured by a Verdict?â€?
  • part four 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 Professionâ€??
  • 27 Cutting Healthcare Down to Size
  • Appendixes
  • Notes
  • References
  • Figure Credits & Permissions
  • Index

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