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

by Daniel N. Robinson

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674952898

ISBN13:9780674952898

Release Date:October 1996

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:299 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 5.8" x 8.6"

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