Malingering or the Simulation of Disease

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With a chapter on Malingering in Relation to the Eye, by W. M. Beaumont. Malingering may be defined as feigning illness to avoid duty or work. According to the preface, "in view of recent legislative innovations, with the increased opportunities they afford to the fraudulent-minded for deception, the need for systematizing our knowledge regarding malingering, of perfecting our powers of discriminating between feigned and genuine disease, has beome urgent - a matter of National import." Show more