Science, Law, and the Body. Looking for Individual Agency and Responsability

Auteur:

Baudouin Dupret

Date de publication:

31 Décembre 2008

Mots-clefs:

science
Sciences
ciencia
Sciences grecques
Fraude scientifique
Scientifiques amateurs
Progrès scientifique et technique
Ciencias
derecho
Law
body
individu
Egypte
Cases
Jurisprudence
Medical jurisprudence
Médecine légale
Medicina legal
Physicians
Médecins
Médicos
Legal documents
Documents (périodique)
Dématérialisation (informatique)
Government publications
Publications officielles
Publicaciones oficiales
Diplomatics
Diplomatique
Diplomática
Deeds
Actes authentiques
Actes sous seing privé
Charters
Chartes, privilèges, immunités
Chartes
archives
Bibliothèques d'archives
Archivos
judge
Causes
Origines
death
mort
Muerte
Fingerprints
Progress
Progrès
progreso
Biologie
biology
Biología
Genetics
Génétique
Genética
DNA fingerprinting
Empreintes génétiques
Identificación por el ADN
crime
Crimes et criminels
Delitos y faltas
Delincuencia
escena
Judges
Human beings
Persons
Instruments
Hand
Main
Manos
Paper
Papier à lettres
Papier
Papel
Trabajo
Work
Psychology
psychologie
Personnalité
Personality
Personalidad
Responsabilidad
Responsibility
responsabilité
Egyptian
Criminal law
Droit pénal
Derecho penal
Practice
Pratique
Showing
Must
Must (le mot anglais)
Moût
espectáculos
Books
livres
Libros
outil
Order
orden
Orient
Empire byzantin
Monnaies orientales
Proche-Orient
Spiritualité orientale
Orient (Aube), Forêt d'
material
Play
Jeu
Juego
grammaire
Grammar, Comparative and general
Grammaire comparée
Gramática comparada
Gramática
Grammar
Liability (Law)
Responsabilité (droit)
Responsabilité civile
contrat
person
Personne (linguistique)
Causation
Causalité
Causalidad
Causality (Physics)
Causalité (physique)
Public Administration
Administration publique
Administración pública
anthropologie
Anthropology
santé
médecine
ethnométhodologie
droit
sociologie
Études du politique
Afrique du Nord
Moyen-Orient
ost:Political Science & Public Administration
isi:Political Science
ost:Sociology & Anthropology
isi:Area Studies
isi:Social Sciences; Interdisciplinary
Bibliothèques de services d'archives
Orient, Forêt d' (Aube)

Publié ici :

14 Avril 2009

Mis à jour le :

14 Août 2017

Langue de publication:

Français

In Egypt, most criminal cases are investigated on the basis of forensic medicine reports. To a lesser extent, personal status and civil cases are also referred to forensic doctors. In this type of documents, doctors provide the judge who mandated them with bodily and pathological descriptions. Classically, forensic medicine investigated various issues ranging from causes of death to psychological pathologies and used different techniques, among which fingerprinting is the most famous. With the progress of biology and genetics, new techniques like DNA profiling of samples found on the crime scene were introduced. Although endowed with discretionary powers, judges tend to ground their rulings on such reports that provide them with bodily and pathological descriptions of actions and people. Technically, these descriptions are supposed to be disengaged instruments in the hands of neutral judges. Practically, forensic reports are highly implicative and consequential, both morally and legally. In this paper, I proceed in five stages. First, I briefly discuss what can be considered as the “missing-what” of both legal and anthropological studies, which leads to better take into consideration the constraints and resources of practical legal work. Second, I review the notions of legal personality, capacity and responsibility in Egyptian criminal law, including the law concerning medical practice, showing that these textual references constitute the resources and the constraints with which participants in legal proceedings must deal. Third, I show how law on the books works for all practical legal purposes, that is, how it works as a practical tool in the hands of practitioners. Finally, I look at the details of forensic reports issued in two Egyptian cases in order to show how they are practically constituted and orient to the ascription of material causes and individual agencies to facts. By so doing, I shall describe how these documents come to play an active role in the grammar of legal responsibility, which is based in most modern legal systems on a relationship between a deed, a person and a link of causality between the former and the latter.

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