Law and Consent: Contesting the Common Sense

ISBN-13: 9780367785635 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 224 str.

Karla O'Regan

Opis

Consent　is used in many different　social and legal contexts　with the　pervasive understanding　that it is, and has always been, about autonomy - but　has it?　

 

Spis treści

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Law & Consent: A Tale of Contradictions

Consent’s Autonomy Story

Methodology: A Juridical Genealogy of Consent

Charting the Course: A Chapter Outline

　

Chapter 1: The Common Sense of consent

Mediated Magic: Paternalism and its Paradox

The Parameters of Consent: Productive Preconditions

Voluntariness

Knowledge

Rationality

Conceptualising the Common: Tacit consent & Intelligibility

Conclusion

　

Chapter 2: Ancient SEx

Regulating Sex Among the Ancients

Offences of hubris

Offences of bia/raptus

Offences of moicheia/stuprum

Ancient Outlaws: Unintelligible Acts

(Post)Modern Reflections

Conclusion

　

Chapter 3: Medieval Medicine

Medieval Medicine: A Monastic Enterprise

Regulating Access

Theory over Practice

Christian Alignment

Medieval Doctors & their Patients: A Match made in Heaven

the Medieval Doctor-Patient Relationship: ‘The Way, The Truth & the LIght’

Conclusion

　

Chapter 4: Modern Sport

Harmful Horseplay: Consent & Contact Sports

Foul Play: Fighting in Sports

‘No sissy stuff’: Harm & Hegemonic Masculinity in Sport

Capitalism with the Gloves off: Consent & Body Capital in Sport

Conclusion

　

Chapter 5: The Political Economy of Consent

Neoliberal Rationality: Touched by an Invisible Hand

The Market Rationality: An Origin-less Story

The Neoliberal Subject: A Normative Ontology

Consent within a Capitalist Logic: Revisiting Criminal & Medical Law

Social Utility in a Neoliberal World

The Capacity to Consent: An Act of Self-governance

Conclusion

Conclusion

Index

O autorze

Karla M. O'Regan is an Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at St. Thomas University, Canada.