PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Feinberg, J
TI  - Sickness and wickedness: new conceptions and new paradoxes
DP  - 1998 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 475--485
VI  - 26
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/26/3/475.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/26/3/475.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law1998 Sep 01; 26
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.