num_pages: 216
description: Constructing 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 Australian medical profession and was readily accepted among the working population, where it often caused high levels of hysteria. The book is brought to life by reference to 20 case studies.
language: English
title: Constructing Rsi: Belief and Desire
titlecomplete: Constructing Rsi: Belief and Desire
publisher: Univ of New South Wales