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 Feinberg, J 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.