Art of Illness : Malingering and Inventing Health Conditions (Paperback)

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