Definitions of death are often referred to as legal fictions since brain death was conceived in the mid-twentieth century. Reference to legal fiction is generally paired with bioethicists’ concern that it facilitates post-mortem tissue donation and the health system generally, by determining death earlier on the continuum of dying and availing more viable tissue and therapeutic resources for others. The author argues that spatio-legal theory, drawing from legal geography, can account for the heterogeneity of effects that the fiction has in spatially managing bodies (e.g., physicians, patient, family) at the bedside. The legal fiction is produced in physicians’ socio-legal practices, coordinating decision-making according to geographies of scarcity and severable, self-contained live- and dead-bodies. The determination liminally exists between private and public, enacting a sterile, affectless ordering of bodies but administered in the spectacle of sovereign death-making, conveying authority whilst managing patient’s and family’s consents. Spatialising traces of anatamo-politics and biopolitics thereby congeal and are enacted heterogeneously in and through the legal form of the fiction, securing preferred constructions of the body in the management of mortality. These spatio-legal features of the legal fiction are described from their collision with case law and literature that document competing nomoi produced from or secreted by antinomian bodies.

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通过死亡的法律虚构对身体的空间法律生产

死亡的定义通常被称为法律虚构，因为脑死亡是在 20 世纪中叶构思的。对法律虚构的引用通常与生物伦理学家的关注相结合，即通过在死亡的连续过程中更早地确定死亡并为他人提供更多可行的组织和治疗资源，它可以促进死后组织捐赠和一般的卫生系统。作者认为，从法律地理学中汲取的空间法律理论可以解释小说在床边空间管理身体（例如，医生、患者、家人）方面的影响的异质性。法律虚构是在医生的社会法律实践中产生的，根据稀缺性和可分割的、独立的活体和死体的地域来协调决策。决定性地存在于私人和公共之间，制定了一种枯燥无味的身体秩序，但在主权死亡的奇观中进行管理，在管理患者和家人同意的同时传达权威。因此，解剖政治和生命政治的空间化痕迹凝结并在虚构的法律形式中和通过虚构的法律形式被异质化地制定，确保身体在死亡管理中的首选结构。法律拟制的这些空间法律特征是通过与判例法和文献的冲突来描述的，这些文献记录了由反律体产生或分泌的竞争性 nomoi。因此，解剖政治和生命政治的空间化痕迹凝结并在虚构的法律形式中和通过虚构的法律形式被异质化地制定，确保身体在死亡管理中的首选结构。法律拟制的这些空间法律特征是通过与判例法和文献的冲突来描述的，这些文献记录了由反律体产生或分泌的竞争性 nomoi。因此，解剖政治和生命政治的空间化痕迹凝结并在虚构的法律形式中和通过虚构的法律形式被异质化地制定，确保身体在死亡管理中的首选结构。法律拟制的这些空间法律特征是通过与判例法和文献的冲突来描述的，这些文献记录了由反律体产生或分泌的竞争性 nomoi。