INTRODUCTION: Investigating Malingering and Public Policy Through an Interdisciplinary Working Group

Goldberg, Daniel S.

doi:10.1017/jme.2021.52

J. Law. Med. Ethics

2021

DOI: 10.1017/jme.2021.52

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INTRODUCTION: Investigating Malingering and Public Policy Through an Interdisciplinary Working Group

Daniel S. Goldberg¹

Abstract: This Introduction frames the context of the interdisciplinary working group that examined the role of malingering in health and social policy in 2019-2020. The Symposium Issue here is the result of the group’s time, energy, and analysis.

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Medical fears of the malingering soldier: ‘phony cronies’ and the Repat in 1960s Australia

Karageorgos

2023

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The fear of the malingering soldier or veteran has existed in Australia since its first nationwide military venture in South Africa. The establishment of the Repatriation Department in 1917 saw the medical, military and political fields work collectively, to some extent, to support hundreds of thousands of men who returned from their military service wounded or ill. Over the next decades the medical profession occasionally criticised the Repatriation Department’s alleged laxness towards soldier recipients of military pensions, particularly those with less visible war-related psychiatric conditions. In 1963 this reached a crescendo when a group of Australian doctors drew battle lines in the correspondence pages of the Medical Journal of Australia, accusing the Repatriation Department of directing a ‘national scandal’, and provoking responses by both the Minister for Repatriation and the Chairman of the War Pensions Assessment Appeal Tribunal. Although this controversy and its aftermath does allow for closer investigation of the inner workings of the Repatriation Department, the words of the doctors themselves about ‘phony cronies’, ‘deadbeats’ and ‘drongoes’ also reveal how the medical fear of the malingering soldier, and particularly the traumatised soldier-malingerer, lingered into the early 1960s and beyond. This paper will analyse the medical conceptualisation of the traumatised soldier in the 1960s in relation to historical conceptions of malingering, the increasingly tenuous position of psychiatry, as well as the socio-medical ‘sick role’, and will explore possible links with the current soldier and veteran suicide crisis in Australia.

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Medical fears of the malingering soldier: ‘phony cronies’ and the Repat in 1960s Australia

Karageorgos

2023

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INTRODUCTION: Investigating Malingering and Public Policy Through an Interdisciplinary Working Group

Abstract: This Introduction frames the context of the interdisciplinary working group that examined the role of malingering in health and social policy in 2019-2020. The Symposium Issue here is the result of the group’s time, energy, and analysis.

Cited by 1 publication

References 8 publications

Medical fears of the malingering soldier: ‘phony cronies’ and the Repat in 1960s Australia

Medical fears of the malingering soldier: ‘phony cronies’ and the Repat in 1960s Australia

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