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