“Person Under Investigation: Detecting Malingering and a Diagnostics of Suspicion in Fin-de-Siècle Britain”
![Illustration of a sick man lying in bed, spreading his right arm towards a man on a suit, carrying a small box in one hand. Text on top: Collier's for November 22, 1913](https://medicalhumanities.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/316/2021/10/The-Adventure-of-the-Dying-Detective-22-november-1913-Colliers-illustration.jpg)
Illustration from “The Adventure of the Dying Detective”, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated by Frederic Dorr Steele, 22 November 1913. Toronto Public Library Digital Archive)
Posted in Scholarship | Tagged Lakshmi Krishnan, Scholarship 2021
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan‘s publication, which is part of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics‘s special issue on Malingering & Health Policy, examines shifting conceptions of diagnosis & malingering in fin-de-siècle Great Britain by studying two important cases: Physician Cornélius Herz’s ordeal after the collapse of the French Panama Canal Company (1889) & Sherlock Holmes’ “Adventure of the Dying Detective” (1913).