TY - JOUR T1 - Sickness and wickedness: new conceptions and new paradoxes JF - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online JO - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law SP - 475 LP - 485 VL - 26 IS - 3 AU - J Feinberg Y1 - 1998/09/01 UR - http://jaapl.org/content/26/3/475.abstract N2 - This article is a discussion of the conceptual relationship between wickedness and (mental) illness, quite apart from their uses in the criminal law. One of the these defended in the article is that in ordinary language illness has lost much of its power to mitigate and excuse, so that "sickos" are treated as if they were some strange minority or political sect. ER -