Wild Beasts and Idle Humours the Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present
- List Price: $51.50
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
- Publish date: 10/01/1996
Description:
How does the law regard and define mental incompetence? To what extent has the law relied on extra-legal authorities -- be they religious or scientific -- to frame its own categories of mental incompetence? Wild Beasts and Idle Humours takes readers on an illuminating journey through the changing historical landscape of human nature and offers an unprecedented look at the legal conceptions of insanity from the pre-classical Greek world to the present This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of thinking about legal insanity.
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