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  1. The origins of factitious disorder.Richard A. A. Kanaan & Simon C. Wessely - 2010 - History of the Human Sciences 23 (2):68-85.
    Factitious disorder is the deliberate simulation of illness for the purpose of seeking the sick role. It is a 20th-century diagnosis, though the grounds for its introduction are uncertain. While previous authors have considered the social changes contributing to growth in the disorder, this article looks at some of the pressures on doctors that may have created the diagnostic need for a disorder between hysteria and malingering. The recent history of those disorders suggests that malingering would no longer be acceptable (...)
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  • Managing Memories: Treating and Controlling Homesickness during the Civil War.Lori Duin Kelly - 2018 - Journal of Medical Humanities 39 (3):285-301.
    Although it has disappeared as a clinical diagnosis, a Disability Studies perspective on Civil War nostalgia offers an opportunity to recover the process by which understanding around a medical event occurs. By incorporating and examining the interplay between and among participants in the conversation surrounding nostalgia as they operate within various site specific temporal and social contexts, this method of analysis offers an opportunity to arrive at an understanding not only of the factors that contribute to different perspectives on an (...)
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