Happy Slaves: A Critique of Consent Theory

I-22: A Critique on "Consent to Medical Interventions"In Penal Code of Iran

s:1462:"Informed consent is central to the doctor-patient relationship and especially to respect the autonomy of the patient that is one of the four principles of biomedical ethics. According to article 190 of Civil Code "consent of both parties is an essential provision for a contract to be made" and according to the definition of contract under Article 183 of the same code, it seems that the ...

A Critique of Feminist Theory

Objective: Feminism has grown rapidly in the last 40 years as both a multidisciplinary voice advocating for change and an area of scholarship and theorybuilding. A review of empirical articles describes 17 studies that indicate a wide range of applications of feminist theory, but theory is applied primarily as a lens for other issues, rather than to expand theory development. Advocacy and philo...

Review of Slaves of Our Affection: the Myth of the Happy Pet

Epstein's Tort Theory: a Critique

IN three articles published in this journal between 1973 and 1975, my colleague Professor Richard Epstein set forth an ambitious normative theory of tort law.' Among the distinctive features of this theory were the author's insistence that strict liability based on causal principles should be the prima facie standard of liability, that notions of liberty rather than of economic efficiency shoul...

A Critique of Disaggregated Economic Theory

Abstract: This paper presents an exercise developing a long run general equilibrium model. The fully developed example shows that models developed on neoclassical premises need not support the neoclassical conceptions of prices as reflecting relative scarcities and of substitution as characterizing comparisons of equilibria. Also, certain stability problems are indicated. The conclusion is that...