LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, Ant-Zen, Actus Reus
21 Sep 2017
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No such thing as moral phenomena, only moral interpretation of it. Laws re ect dominant normative positions in society. Normative positions about right and wrong re ect moral positions accepted in given society. Conceived as unrelated to structure and function of society: natural law. Idea that law corresponded to rule of reason (free from all passion) on a naturalistic basis (human nature can be known through reason) theoretic with. Speculations about essence of things including justice is discouraged. What matters are positive laws, as enforced by the state. Homosexuality and the truth of medicine, of law. In 1952, the apa listed homosexuality in the dsm as a sociopathic personality disturbance. Seventh printing of the dsm-ii, in 1974, no longer listed homosexuality as a category. Tuesday, september 19, 2017 of disorder: after a vote by apa trustees in 1973, and con rmed by the wider apa membership in 1974, the diagnosis was replaced with the category of sexual orientation disturbance .
