Argo Antonella, Sesta Luciano
"DAMNATIO MEMORIAE"? MIGRANTI, GIUSTIZIA E MEDICINA LEGALE - "DAMNATIO MEMORIAE"? MIGRANTS, JUSTICE AND LEGAL MEDICINE
in Rivista italiana di medicina legale e del diritto in campo sanitario, 2017, fasc. 2 pag. 895 - 905
(Bibliografia: a pié di pagina o nel corpo del testo)
[Abstract tratto dalla rivista]
The Italian Government's choice to recover migrants' corpses died in April 2015 on Mediterranean Sea, has aroused bitter controversy, especially because of the cost of the entire operation and the possible economic and political interests that they hide behind it. Beyond the office politics, the sentiments of piety towards the dead and the duty to ensure a proper burial, however, remain the priority, obtaining a fully human meaning precisely when, to honor them, we are willing to face the shared costs and overcome the distinction between foreign and citizen. Therefore, the legal medical identification of the corpse is a duty regardless of the presence of any family members involved, becoming in this way a form of "pity institutionalized", beyond each naive sentimentality, on the one hand, and each cynicism of State, on the other hand.[Abstract appeared in the Journal]
Sommario: 1. I costi della pietà e le trame della politica. - 2. Allocazione delle risorse e "reductio ad pecuniam". - 3. Sentimenti familiari e ragioni pubbliche: il recupero dei cadaveri come dovere umanitario. - 4. Autopsia e degna sepoltura: la medicina legale e la sua umanità.
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