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Caring for Dead Bodies from Medieval to Contemporary Society (a Seminar Cycle): Laws for the Dead and the Living

Type: 
Lecture
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Speaker: 
Daniel Ziemann
Judit Sandor
Organizer: 
Irene Barbiera
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Room: 
Gellner Room
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 4:00pm
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Date: 
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm

To what extent is legislation regulating the treatment of dead bodies an expression of how society as a whole perceives the dead? What do we know about ancient religious laws? What attitude towards the dead did they represent and to what extent did they influence broader social practices? Today, genetic studies invoke new questions concerning the philosophical/legal relationship between the body and person. To what extent are we able to provide informed decisions on the extra-corporal parts of the cadaver and living human body? Considering these biomedical challenges from ethical and legal perspectives, not only are individual expectations altering but even personal rights may change.

Daniel Ziemann: Regulations for the Dead in Early Medieval Canon Law

Daniel Ziemann is associate professor at the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University. He earned his PhD at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany, in 2002. He has written: Vom Wandervolk zur Großmacht. Die Entstehung Bulgariens im frühen Mittelalter (7. bis 9. Jh.) (Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau, 2007)


Judit Sándor: The Human and the Person – Legal Dilemmas on the Human Body in Research

Judit Sándor is Director of the Center for Ethics and law in Biomedicine (CELAB) and professor at the Central European University. She was one of the founders of the first Patients' Rights Organization in Hungary. In 2004-2005 she served as the Chief of the Bioethics Section at the UNESCO; since then she actively participates in several UNESCO works. Among her publications: Biobanks and tissue research: the public, the rights and the regulations, eds. Lenk, Sándor, Gordijn (New York, Springer, 2011); Frontiers of European Health Law: Yearbook, 2002, eds. den Exter and Sándor (Rotterdam, Erasmus University Press, 2003).