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Additional Physical Format: | Catégorisation des corps : étude sur l'humain avant la naissance et après la mort / Lisa Carayon. 2016 (ABES)199255369 |
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Material Type: | Thesis/dissertation |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lisa Carayon, juriste).; Grégoire Loiseau |
ISBN: | 9782919211906 2919211900 |
OCLC Number: | 1101610515 |
Notes: | IRJS = Institut de recherche juridique de la Sorbonne. |
Awards: | Prix Jean Carbonnier de la Mission Droit et Justice 2017 Prix solennel AndreÌ IsoreÌ de la chancellerie des universiteÌs de Paris 2017 Prix de theÌse Jean-Marie Auby de l'association française de droit de la santeÌ 2017 Mention speÌciale du jury du prix Paris Sciences Lettres - Sciences humaines et sociales 2018 |
Description: | 1 v. (XIX-787 p.) : couv. illustrations ; 23 cm |
Series Title: | Bibliothèque de l'Institut de recherche juridique de la Sorbonne - André Tunc, 100. |
Responsibility: | Lisa Carayon, ... ; préface de Grégoire Loiseau, ... |
Abstract:
Embryos and corpses are often presented as unidentified legal objects, in between people and things. However, a detailed analysis of French case law and statute law shows that the classification of bodies is not unclear, but eluded. The extreme political sensitivity of the matter leads to the construction of a subdivided law, offering one-time solutions to specific questions, without due regard to categorical coherence. Most of the doctrine seems to elude the political dimension of this construction and presents classification as an actual question of legal knowledge. Resorting to extraneous disciplines (biology, psychoanalysis, philosophy ...) in order to identify the nature of the bodies, authors seem to repeat a prescriptive approach based on natural law theory even if they often deny it. In contrast, a historical approach of classification and legal systems applied to embryos and corpses reveals that the main issue is that the bodies' categories induced by law are above all hierarchization. All bodies do not benefit from the same legal protection and the status of embryos and corpses very often reflects existing hierarchies between individuals - distinctions based on social level, religion, gender, ethnicity ... Hence a question arises as to possible solutions to this manifold categorization of bodies : should the law be relaxed in isolated cases or should a more radical transformation of the law be considered?
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