Free people of color are documented as migrating with European-American neighbors in the first half of the 18th century to the frontiers of Virginia and North Carolina, where they received land grants like their neighbors.
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Melungeon (/məˈlʌndʒən/ mə-LUN-jən) is a term traditionally applied to one of numerous tri-racial isolate groups of the Southeastern United States.
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Malingering is suspected when any combination of events such as the following occur: 1  A person is referred by his/her attorney for an evaluation. 2  There is a noticeable and distinct difference between the level of distress or disability claimed by the person when compared to information obtained by objective means. 3  There is a lack of cooperation ...
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Signs and symptoms [edit]. Some conditions are thought to be easier to feign than others. For example, virtually everyone has experienced pain and knows how a person in pain should appear to others.
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Malingering is different from somatization disorder and factitious disorder. Failure to detect actual cases of malingering imposes a substantial economic burden on the health care system, and false attribution of malingering imposes a substantial burden of suffering on a significant proportion of the patient population.
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Definition. The central theme to all definitions of malingering is that the term applies to persons who deliberately pretend to have an illness or disability in order to receive financial or other gain, or to avoid punishment or responsibility.
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During the nineteenth century, free people of color sometimes identified as Portuguese or Native American in order to avoid being classified as black in the segregated slave societies. Other Melungeon individuals and families are accepted and identify as white, particularly since the mid-20th century.
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For example, DeMarce (1992) listed Hale as a Melungeon surname. By the mid-to-late 19th century, the term Melungeon appeared to have been used most frequently to refer to the multi-racial families of Hancock County and neighboring areas.
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Several other uses of the term in the print media, from mid-19th to early 20th century, have been collected at the Melungeon Heritage Association Website. The spelling of the term varied widely, as was common for words and names at the time; eventually the form Melungeon became standard.
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In the Hebrew Bible, David feigns insanity to escape from a king who views him as an enemy. Odysseus was stated to have also feigned insanity in order to avoid participating in the Trojan War. Malingering has been recorded historically as early as Roman times by the physician Galen, who reported two cases. One patient simulated colic to avoid a public meeting, while the other feigned an injured knee to avoid accompanying his master on a long journey.
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what are malingers
Malingers are persons who deliberately pretend to have an illness or disability in order to receive financial or other gains or to avoid punishment or responsibility.