Orchestrer la mort dans la France contemporaine
How does a state codify temporalities at the end of life? This article explores the ways in which French medico-administrative, institutional and legal dispositions are creating new timeframes for the end of life, new categories of patients and new frontiers between life and death. In particular, a...
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| author | Ingrid Voléry Lauréna Toupet |
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| description | How does a state codify temporalities at the end of life? This article explores the ways in which French medico-administrative, institutional and legal dispositions are creating new timeframes for the end of life, new categories of patients and new frontiers between life and death. In particular, a gradual increase in formalizing the terminal phase of patients’ lives, partly distinct from the terminal stage of their illness, leads to identifying specific forms of bare lives around which the medical practices of biopower come to be recreated as thanatopower. The article concludes by highlighting the specific features of French governmentality of dying and how it uniquely attempts to overcome the contradictions facing all Western states involved in developing policies for prolonging life. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9afbe2cb36834646852015f24097f61e2023-06-07T11:56:57ZfraAssociation Internationale des Sociologues de Langue FrançaiseSociologies1992-26552023-05-01Orchestrer la mort dans la France contemporaineIngrid VoléryLauréna ToupetHow does a state codify temporalities at the end of life? This article explores the ways in which French medico-administrative, institutional and legal dispositions are creating new timeframes for the end of life, new categories of patients and new frontiers between life and death. In particular, a gradual increase in formalizing the terminal phase of patients’ lives, partly distinct from the terminal stage of their illness, leads to identifying specific forms of bare lives around which the medical practices of biopower come to be recreated as thanatopower. The article concludes by highlighting the specific features of French governmentality of dying and how it uniquely attempts to overcome the contradictions facing all Western states involved in developing policies for prolonging life.http://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/20340end of lifebiopowerthanatopowerbare lifegovernment of dyingFrench law |
| spellingShingle | Ingrid Voléry Lauréna Toupet Orchestrer la mort dans la France contemporaine Sociologies end of life biopower thanatopower bare life government of dying French law |
| title | Orchestrer la mort dans la France contemporaine |
| title_full | Orchestrer la mort dans la France contemporaine |
| title_fullStr | Orchestrer la mort dans la France contemporaine |
| title_full_unstemmed | Orchestrer la mort dans la France contemporaine |
| title_short | Orchestrer la mort dans la France contemporaine |
| title_sort | orchestrer la mort dans la france contemporaine |
| topic | end of life biopower thanatopower bare life government of dying French law |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/20340 |
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