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By Andrew Malleson. 527 pp. Montreal, McGill–Queen's University Press, 2002. $49.95. ISBN 0-7735-2333-2.

The term "whiplash" conjures up images of a violent encounter between two automobiles, spider-webbed windshields, broken bones, and twisted metal. In fact, whiplash claims are just as likely to result from low-energy "bumper thumps" as they are from more destructive collisions. Ten percent of persons who make whiplash claims report a substantial permanent disability. So how can whiplash be considered a "useful" illness? In Whiplash and Other Useful Illnesses, Andrew Malleson details the evolution of whiplash, from its innocuous beginnings in 1928, when Harold Crowe first used the term at a meeting of orthopedic surgeons to describe eight cases of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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