Doubt & Social Policy: The Long History of Malingering in Modern Welfare States

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 49 (3):385-393 (2021)
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Abstract

This essay explores the long Western history of anxieties about feigned illness connected specifically to social policy. There is a remarkable consistency of such anxieties across time, as they appear in almost every major historical period in the West since the Middle Ages.

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