A 1990, which was in reality not that long ago, amendment now defines rape as sexual intercourse " where it is accompanied against a persons will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury." The important issues additions are " menace" and " duress," as they include consideration of verbal threats and implied force. ...
Voluntary consent is defined as a patient understands freedom from force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, ulterior form of constraint, or coercion, knowing the right to refuse or withdraw, without prejudicing further health care, right to ask questions and negotiate aspects of treatment coerced perhaps by disease but not by other people. ... There is a hierarchy of appropriate decision makers defined by state laws. ...
Cushing Scott states that, Miller has argued for (the) historical truth (of the play), pointed to its contemporary parallels, and defined its transhistorical subject as a social process that includes, but also transcends, the Salem witchcraft trials a the anticommunist investigations of the 1950's (128). ...
