Legal Anatomy of the Body

Mauro Balestrieri, is Associate Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Turin. His research explores comparative jurisprudence, legal theory, and the cultural and historical formation of legal institutions. He is co-author of Quantitative Methods in Comparative Law (Edward Elgar, 2023) and co-editor of The Grand Strategy of Comparative Law (Routledge, 2024).Alice Cauduro, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Administrative Law at the Department of Law, University of Turin, where she teaches Health Law and Pharmaceutical Administrative Law. Her research specializes in health and pharmaceutical law, with particular emphasis on regulatory transparency, public participation, and access to information, especially within the medical field. Dr. Cauduro is a frequent speaker at academic conferences and has contributed to national television programs and medical journals. She is actively involved in interdisciplinary research groups, serves on several editorial boards, and has published extensively on issues of pharmaceutical law and access to medicines. In 2024, she undertook a research period at the Law, Medicines and Life Sciences Centre in Cambridge, UK, focusing on the governance of medicine costs in the UK and Italy.

• Introduction: Law, Body, and Health in a Post-Pandemic World.- Part I: Law, Medicine, and the Early Modern Epistemology of the Body.- Pestis Ius in Early Modern Pandemics: A Genealogy of Health Law in the Holy Roman Empire.- Moving on the Latitude of Health and Disease. Some Remarks on the Galenic Concept of Neutrum from the 16th to the 18th Centuries.- Governing the Experimental Body: Codification, Delegation, and the Economy of Practice in the Early Modern Period.- Part II: Philosophies of the Body and Legal Responses to Health Emergencies.- Why the Body Matters. Sovereignty, Control, and Individual Freedom.- What Is a Body? Law, Health, and Well-Being in Times of Emergency.- Bodies of Risk. Medicine, Law, and the Paradox of Decision-Making in Health Crises Analysed Through Social Systems Theory.- The Body and the Punishment: The Ideology of Cure Between Past and Present.- Part III: Global Health Governance between Access, Innovation, and Regulatory Challenges.- Strengthening Legal Preparedness in the European Union after the Pandemic: Law, Policy, and Parliamentary Accountability.- Pharmaceutical Citizenship in the Pandemic: What does the English Experience with ‘COVID Passports’ Reveal?.- The Fundamental Right to Health and Its Universal Guarantees.- Crisis as Usual: Antimicrobial Resistance and the Temporal Governance of Global Health.- Access to Medicines as a Proxy for Universal Healthcare.- Part IV: Gender, Intersectionality, and Reproductive Rights in Health Crises.- The Invisible Women: Gender in Global Legal Regimes of Health Emergencies.- Women’s Bodies, Abortion Law in the UK and the Right to Abortion in Emergencies.- The Legal Anatomy of Women’s Bodies Beyond Emergency Times.- Governing AI in Public Health: Advancing the Right to Health through an Intersectional Lens.