Art of Illness - Malingering and Inventing Health Conditions

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.

List of contents

Introduction: The Bioethics of Malingering, Misrepresentation of Health, and Forensics of Illness Part 1: Conceptualizing Malingering 1. Malingering in Ancient Greece and Rome 2. Form, Fraud, and Performance in Middle English Medical Satire 3. Pathologising Ecstatic Dance: Reflections on Medieval Dansomania and the Love Parade in Berlin, 1996 4. Philosophical Paradoxes of Factitious Disorders Part 2: Historic Cases of Malingering 5. 'Because she pretended to be pregnant and was not': Fake Royal Pregnancies in Medieval Scotland 6. Feigning Madness: The Case of William Hawkyns, 1552 London 7. "A decietfull gypsay [sic]": Malingering, Performance and Princess Sophia's "Fitts" Part 3: Regulations and Laws Against Malingering 8. Faking It: Thirteenth Century Bolognese Responses to Feigning Leprosy 9. Expertis medicis videatur: Legal Medical Expertise in the Apostolic Chancery's Assessment of Personal Injury Damages During the Avignon Period (1309-1378) 10. Compensatory Damages and the Construction of Disability in Prenatal Torts. Afterword

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Wendy J. (Augusta University Turner
• Assisted by: Wendy J. Turner (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032589626
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3258962-6
• No. of pages: 294
• Series: Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, History of Medicine, Legal History, Social and cultural history, malingerers;faking sickness;faking illness;faking disease