Scrivener’s Palsy
Carl Elliott: Take the red pill, 8 January 2004
Constructing RSI: Belief and Desire
by Yolande Lucire.
New South Wales, 216 pp., £24.50, September 2002,9780868407784 Show More
by Yolande Lucire.
New South Wales, 216 pp., £24.50, September 2002,
Meaning, Medicine and the ‘Placebo Effect’
by Daniel Moerman.
Cambridge, 172 pp., £14.95, October 2002,0 521 00087 4 Show More
by Daniel Moerman.
Cambridge, 172 pp., £14.95, October 2002,
“... scholarly backing from two fine new books. The darker side of doctors’ power is on display in Yolande Lucire’s carefully argued Constructing RSI. Lucire writes about the epidemic of repetitive strain injury in Australia in the 1980s, which she believes was a mass psychogenic phenomenon. She argues that doctors ... ”
