Whiplash and Other Useful Illnesses

Andrew Malleson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

544 Seiten

2002
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7735-2333-3 (ISBN)

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Contends that whiplash is a strain of the neck and heals in a matter of days or weeks. This book details the evolution of whiplash from a disorder into an epidemic that has left millions permanently disabled. It exposes how medical healthcare and legal professionals prey on the anxieties and greed of their clients.

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.

Andrew Malleson is the author of Need Your Doctor Be So Useless? and The Medical Runaround. He was a psychiatrist with the Toronto University Health Network and a consultant to the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. He has frequently served as a medical ex

Verlagsort	Montreal
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	840 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-7735-2333-2 / 0773523332
ISBN-13	978-0-7735-2333-3 / 9780773523333
Zustand	Neuware