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« Nous vivons dans l’oubli de nos métamorphoses… »: La mort et la sculpture du vivant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

Jean Claude Ameisen
Jean Claude Ameisen*
Affiliation:
Université Paris 7, faculté de médecine Xavier Bichat
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Résumé

Les nouvelles avancées de la biologie invitent à penser le vivant comme un ensemble permanent de métamorphoses. Cette conférence montre que des mécanismes comme celui de la mort cellulaire programmée, ou « suicide cellulaire », par lesquels sont sculptées les formes du vivant, conduisent à reconsidérer notre conception de la vie et de la mort, à distance à la fois de la tentation anthropomorphique et de la sociobiologie. C’est alors toute la complexité du vivant, de l’organisation cellulaire aux formes du social, qui est à repenser, à la lumière des nouveaux savoirs biologiques et médicaux.

Abstract

Abstract

The latest discoveries in biology invite us to consider life as a series of on-going metamorphoses. This paper shows that processes such as programmed cell-death or the cell-suicide mechanism, which shape life, should prompt us to reconsider our own conceptions of life and death, away from the temptations of both anthropomorphism and sociobology. Thus the way we think about life as a whole, be it related to cellular or social organisation, should be reconsidered in the light of the latest findings in medicine and biology.

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Les leçons de la biologie
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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales , Volume 62 , Issue 6 , December 2007 , pp. 1251 - 1283
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Copyright © Les Éditions de l’EHESS 2007

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Footnotes

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Texte de la 29e conférence Marc Bloch (Paris, EHESS, 12 juin 2007).

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