Article: The solidarity of the human bodies

Xavier BIOY

Professeur de droit à l’Université de Toulouse.
Directeur de l’Institut Maurice Hauriou et de l’Institut Fédératif de Recherche « Mutation des normes juridiques »

Abstract

The legal and bioethical regulation of the uses of the elements of the human body can be described by means of the concept of solidarity. From the French example, we can so show that the State tries to frame solidarities which already exist, for example between people who share the same genome, in the family, or, on the contrary, tent to impose or to direct the sharing of the human biological resources (organs, tissues, gametes, stem cell…).