Constructing RSI : belief and desire / Yolande Lucire.
Constructing RSI : belief and desire / Yolande Lucire.
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Sydney : UNSW Press, 2003.
Date
2003.
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363.1109/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvi, 216 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Locating RSI in the medical literature and diagnostic systems -- 1. Some sociological and philosophical preliminaries -- 2. Disease, illness and somatization -- 3. Perceptions of writers' cramp and its epidemics -- 4. RSI and industrial relations -- 5. RSI and institutional support: me...
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Publisher
Sydney : UNSW Press, 2003.
Place of Publication
New South Wales
Date Published
2003.
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Summary
"Constructing RSI: Belief and desire explains how and why medical symptoms collectively known as repetitive strain injury (RSI) became so widespread during the late 1980s. The book catalogues the response to these symptoms against a history that is more than three centuries old, and shows how RSI gained currency within large sections of the Austral...
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Constructing RSI : belief and desire / Yolande Lucire.
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [194]-206.
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363.1109/1
Record Identifier
74Vv8lE5LGvO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv8lE5LGvO
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ISBN
086840778X (pbk.)
086840778X
DDC
363.1109
362.1971720994
362.19717200994
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991014364969702626
