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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? This text takes readers on a journey through the changing historical landscape of human nature and offers a look at the legal conceptions of insanity from the pre-classical Greek world to the present. It should be of use to those interested in the evolution of thinking about legal insanity.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Wild Beasts and Idle Humours
• Subtitle: The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present
• Author: Daniel N. Robinson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312
• EAN: 9780674952904
• ISBN: 0674952901
• ID: 04636641
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Weight: 440 g
• Dimensions: 213 × 171 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. February 1998

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