Understanding Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy as child abuse
This thesis will demonstrate how Munchausen Syndrome and, by derivation Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, grew out of historical themes of assigning disease labels to anomalous or problematic behaviour, replicating issues of gender, particularly in respect of illness and madness and power biases, in soc...
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University of Edinburgh
2009
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.739048 |