Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy

Part I of Essay
Jamie was three years old and had been hospitalized thirty times for illnesses such as pneumonia, asthma, sudden fevers, and numerous mysterious infections. After countless tests and investigations into Jamie’s illnesses, doctors could find no apparent causes and were baff ....

Part II of Essay
.... Freihess Von Munchausen, an 18th century figure known for telling extremely tall tales of his adventures. In 1977 an English pediatrician by the name of Meadow first described “,” when he discovered that the mothers of his epileptic patients were inducing their children’s seizures. Due to the extremity of the abuse, nine percent of Munchausen victims die at the hands of their perpetrator, which is the child’s own mother ninety-eight percent of the time (Feldman 147). MSBP is a perplexing and unfathomable disorder. In an attempt to u ....