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Journal of Pediatric Neurology 2010; 08(01): 083-084
DOI: 10.3233/JPN-2010-0358
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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 July 2008

23 July 2008

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30 July 2015 (online)

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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.