RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
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
FD American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
SP 475
OP 485
VO 26
IS 3
A1 J Feinberg
YR 1998
UL http://jaapl.org/content/26/3/475.abstract
AB 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.