Research in dentistry will continue through the work of young researchers already begun in the past year, and which will continue around the painful body in a qualitative and ethical perspective.
Projects
The ethics researchers intend to continue their research on the observation of the diversity of procedures for informing relatives in Europe, in the field of rare diseases.
This inter-team project will focus on a specific case where the patient's body is treated using the resources of another's body. In this case, the body is no longer simply the receptacle of treatments but becomes itself a means of treatment available to patients in a life-threatening situation (leukemia, sickle cell disease, etc.).
In the event of death, other social norms unfold because respect for the body does not disappear with death. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has given an insight into the cultural invariants in the respect due to the body of the deceased. The duty of decency that the living recognize towards the cadaveric body is imposed even when the person has donated his or her body to science, within a recently reinforced normative framework. During the next contract, the removal of elements from the cadaveric body at the request of the judicial authorities will be the subject of a renewed deontological approach through the digitization of forensic resources.
Pharmaceutical law is undoubtedly one of the specialties of the "Health Law" axis that best ensures the team's visibility. This field of research is, from a legal point of view, poorly exploited in France.
Hospital law can be described as the second marker of the team's disciplinary visibility. The books and manuals on this subject have been particularly praised. In recent years, hospital law has given rise to reflections on the organization of the health care system, on financing mechanisms and on liability. In the last few months, the subject has been in full mutation and the team has been able to take advantage of it to propose innovative publications.
Traditional medicine is probably the most surprising object of study. In the West, work on it is, to say the least, scarce. This lack of research does not mean that traditional medicine is not of interest to the researcher or the professional. The emergence of new medical techniques and the demands for a more alternative medicine have raised many legal questions.
The problem of violence in all its forms (physical, psychological, verbal, symbolic) has been the subject of a galloping inflation of legislation in France and abroad, the aim of which is to ensure better protection for victims, with diversified responses.