Biopolitics and truth: the case of Marchiafava-Bignami disease in the Chilean criminal apparatus
Abstract
Within the framework of biopolitical perspectives, and especially bio-law, this paper analyses the reception that, through technologies of neuroimaging, the Chilean juridical apparatus gives place from a regimen of truth established by a given scientific knowledge. The paper highlights that the process of juridical translation seems to take place in an enlarging way, and examines the juridical case of an individual affected by the Marchiafava-Bignami disease (EMB), a very rare neuronal affection that has as a main effect the irresistible impulse of alcohol consumption. It is analyzed a sentence of the Appeal Court of Santiago of Chile that accepts the diagnostic of EMB disease, giving place to a way of life which is not treated as a mere exception in a performativity sense, but as a form of excused life.Keywords:
Biopolitics, Biolaw, Regime of Truth, Marchiafava-Bignami, Performativity lifeReferences
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