Whiplash and other useful illnesses / Andrew Malleson.

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005.

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Medical jurisprudence -- Canada.

Personal injuries -- Canada.

Part 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

Part 2. 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 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?

Part 3. 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 yankers

20. Hysteria and the "M" diagnosis

21. "Cured by a verdict?"

Part 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

Appendix 1. Glossary of acronyms

Appendix 2. The use of prospective studies and RCTs

Appendix 3. Evidence against residual brain injury being the cause of post-concussion syndrome after minor head injury

Appendix 4. Overvaluation of healthcare

Notes

References

Figure credits and permissions

Index.

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