1st Edition

Art of Illness Malingering and Inventing Health Conditions

Edited By Wendy J. Turner Copyright 2024
310 Pages
by Routledge

310 Pages
by Routledge

310 Pages
by Routledge

There is a long history of inventing illness, such as pretending to be sick for attention or accusing others of being ill. This volume explores the art of illness, and the deceptions and truths around health and bodies, from a multiplicity of angles from antiquity to the present. The chapters, which are based on primary-source evidence ranging from antiquity to the late twentieth century, are... Read more

Foreword

Walton O. Schalick, III

Introduction: The Bioethics of Malingering, Misrepresentation of Health, and Forensics of Illness

Wendy J. Turner

Part 1: Conceptualizing Malingering

1. Malingering in Ancient Greece and Rome

Lisa LeBlanc

2. Form, Fraud, and Performance in Middle English Medical Satire

Chelsea Silva

3. Pathologising Ecstatic Dance: Reflections on Medieval Dansomania and the Love Parade in Berlin, 1996

Irina Metzler

4. Philosophical Paradoxes of Factitious Disorders

Herb Leventer

Part 2: Historic Cases of Malingering

5. ‘Because she pretended to be pregnant and was not’: Fake Royal Pregnancies in Medieval Scotland

Emma Trivett

6. Feigning Madness: The Case of William Hawkyns, 1552 London

Wendy J. Turner

7. "A decietfull gypsay [sic]": Malingering, Performance and Princess Sophia’s "Fitts"

Carolyn A. Day

Part 3: Regulations and Laws Against Malingering

8. Faking It: Thirteenth Century Bolognese Responses to Feigning Leprosy

Courtney A. Krolikoski

9. Expertis medicis videatur: Legal Medical Expertise in the Apostolic Chancery’s Assessment of Personal Injury Damages During the Avignon Period (1309–1378)

Ninon Dubourg

10. Compensatory Damages and the Construction of Disability in Prenatal Torts

Luke I. Haqq

Afterword

Eliza Buhrer

Biography

Wendy J. Turner is Professor of History in the Department of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy at Augusta University, where she also holds affiliate professorships in the Center for Bioethics and Health Policy in the Institute for Public and Preventative Health and The Graduate School.