| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 204 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Three marks of the past on the backs of the present -- Oh, my aching back -- The pall of persistence -- Doc, my back is killing me -- The quest for a better way; or, My name is Nortin and I'm a placebo? -- Invasion of the spine surgeons -- Backbreaking work -- The straw that broke the camel's back -- If you don't know where you are going, all roads will get you there |
| Summary |
For more than three decades as a physician and medical researcher, Nortin Hadler has studied the experience of low back pain in people who are otherwise healthy. With the healthy skepticism that has become his trademark, he takes the "Hadlerian" approach to backaches and the backache treatment industry, arguing that regional back pain is overly medicalized by doctors, surgeons, and alternative therapists and that the design of workers' compensation, disability insurance, and other "health" schemes actually thwarts getting well |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Backache -- Popular works
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MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
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Backache
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| Genre/Form |
Popular works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009019737 |
| ISBN |
9780807898369 |
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0807898368 |
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9780807898543 |
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0807898546 |
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