Journal of Pediatric Neurology 2010; 08(01): 083-084
DOI: 10.3233/JPN-2010-0358
Review Article
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart – New York

"Outlandish factitious illness" presented as 'epilepsy'[1]

David C. Taylor
a   Department of Neurology, Great Ormond St Hospital, ICH UCL, UK
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23. Juli 2008

23. Juli 2008

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30. Juli 2015 (online)

1 Good, readable, accounts of “Outlandish Factitious Illness” with typical family psychopathology and medical participation can be found in popular lateVictorian children’s novels “The Secret Garden” and “Heidi”. They reveal very clearly society’s “double standards” in this matter.