On 07-Feb-01 enkin wrote:
[...]
> The term 'Munchausen's
> syndrome' was coined by Richard Asher, originally published in the
> Lancet, 10th February 1951.
[...]
> More available to most readers, perhaps, is the marvellous collection
> of papers by Richard Asher edited by Sir Frances Avery Jones, first
> published by Pitman Medical Publishing Co. in 1972, and reprinted
> countless times. It contains 16 of Asher's most delightful essays, in
> which that on Munchausen's syndrome is included.
> Murray W. Enkin
Many thanks, Murray. This looks definitive and just what I was after!
I'll be trying to get hold of the collection and look forward to
reading it.
Thanks also to Henry Barry, Allen Shaughnessy, David Doggett, Susan
Kaiser, and Claire Harris for contributing.
Best wishes to all,
Ted.
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