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Hardcover Wild Beasts and Idle Humors: The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present Book

ISBN: 0674952898

ISBN13: 9780674952898

Wild Beasts and Idle Humors: The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present

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How does the law regard and define mental incompetence, when faced with the problem of meting out justice? To what extent has the law relied on extra-legal authorities - be they religious or scientific - to frame its own categories of mental incompetence and madness? Wild Beasts and Idle Humours takes us on a journey through the changing historical landscape of human nature and offers an unprecedented look at the legal conceptions of insanity from...

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