Person Under Investigation: Detecting Malingering and a Diagnostics of Suspicion in Fin-de-Siècle Britain

In 1889, The British Medical Journal published a piece titled, “Detective Medicine,” which describes feats of medical detection performed by physicians attending malingering prisoners. Though simulating illness had a long history, the medicalization of malingering at the fin de siècle led to a proli...

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Published in:The Journal of law, medicine & ethics medicine & ethics, 2021-01, Vol.49 (3), p.343-356
Main Author: Krishnan, Lakshmi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
19th century
Criminal investigations
Extradition
Health technology assessment
Illnesses
Medical diagnosis
Medical ethics
Physicians
Political power
Sutures
Turn of the century
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Summary:In 1889, The British Medical Journal published a piece titled, “Detective Medicine,” which describes feats of medical detection performed by physicians attending malingering prisoners. Though simulating illness had a long history, the medicalization of malingering at the fin de siècle led to a proliferation of such case histories and cheerful records of pathological feigners thwarted.
ISSN:1073-1105
1748-720X
DOI:10.1017/jme.2021.53