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• Title:Whiplash and other useful illnesses / Andrew Malleson.
  
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• Author/Creator:Malleson, Andrew.
  
• Published/Created:Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2002.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: WE708 .M35 2002
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: KN323.9 .M34 2002
    
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  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical jurisprudence--Canada.
  Whiplash injuries--Treatment--Canada.
  Personal injuries--Canada.
  Medical care, Cost of--Canada.
  
• Description:viii, 527 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes index.
  Includes bibliographical references: pages [455]-511.
  
• ISBN:0773523332
  
• 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.