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Author Malleson, Andrew

Title Whiplash and other useful illnesses / Andrew Malleson
Published Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (544 pages) : illustrations
Series CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection
Contents 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 “M� Diagnosis -- 21 “ Cured by a Verdict?� -- 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 Profession�? -- 27 Cutting Healthcare Down to Size -- Appendixes -- Notes -- References -- Figure Credits & Permissions -- Index
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. In Whiplash and Other Useful Illnesses Andrew Malleson contends that whiplash is nothing more than a strain of the neck and, like most other strains, heals in a matter of days or weeks. The fact that up to 10% of all whiplash "victims" are reported as permanently disabled occurs because medical healthcare and legal professionals foster and create illnesses, dangling illusive fortunes in front of would-be claimants. Malleson details the evolution of whiplash from a common, short-lived disorder into a world-wide epidemic that has left millions permanently disabled. He exposes how some medical healthcare and legal professionals prey on the anxieties and greed of their clients. He argues that whiplash is only one of a long list of largely fabricated illnesses and injuries that will drain resources from the health care system
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-511) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject 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
forensic medicine.
MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
Personal injuries
Medical jurisprudence
Medical care, Cost of
M̌decine ľgale -- Canada.
Soins médicaux -- Coût -- Canada.
Canada
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002512019
ISBN 9780773569997
0773569995
1282860267
9781282860261
9786612860263
661286026X