Bibliographic record
Abstract
The article reconstructs the historical and conceptual evolution of the legal status of the human body, moving from Jean-Pierre Baud’s notion of the “censorship of the body” to its present centrality in biolaw. Through an extensive excursus spanning Roman law (persona/res), canon law (jus in corpus), liberal modernity, Pandectist doctrine, nineteenth-century codifications and totalitarian systems, the paper illustrates how the legal category of the personprogressively overshadowed the material dimension of the body. Advances in biotechnology, information technology and biological preservation disrupt this traditional framework, requiring a redefinition of the boundaries between body, identity and legal availability. The analysis examines Rodotà’s concepts of the “enhanced body” and the “electronic body”, deep biometrics, neuro-rights and digital neuro-corporeality, showing how these innovations generate a profound “displacement and reformulation” (D’Aloia) of fundamental legal categories. The paper highlights the regulatory role of soft law in managing rapidly evolving bio-legal dynamics while safeguarding human dignity as a structural limit.A comparative overview (France, Germany, common-law jurisdictions, Québec and the Oviedo Convention) reveals the tension between non-commodification, the social function of the body and forms of controlled patrimonialisation. The article concludes by considering the emergence of a “new legal anthropology” capable of embracing the contemporary plurality of corporeal forms: biological, fragmented, preserved, digitalised and projected into virtual environments.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".