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"If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, sooner or later Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry is bound to appear. As a lawyer, philosophe, and Enlightenment polymath, Moreau created and compiled an immense archive that remains a vital window into the fragile social, political, and intellectual fault lines of the Age of Revolutions. But the gilded spines and elegant designs that decorate his archive obscure the truth: Moreau's achievements were, at every turn, predicated upon the work of enslaved and free people of color. Their labor amassed the wealth that afforded him the leisure to research, think, and write. Their rich intellectual and linguistic cultures filled the pages of his most applauded works. They set the type, dried the paper, and folded the pages that created his legacy. Every beautiful book Moreau designed contains an embedded story of hidden violence. Sara Johnson's arresting investigation of race and knowledge in the revolutionary Atlantic surrounds Moreau with the African-descended people he worked so hard to erase, immersing him in a vibrant community of language innovators, forgers of kinship networks, and world travelers who strove to create their own social and political lives. Built from archival fragments, creative speculation, and audacious intellectual courage, Encyclopédie noire is a communal biography of the women and men who made Moreau's world"--

Am 19. und 20. Juli 2019 fand an der Staatlichen Ivane Javackishvili Universität in Tiflis auf Initiative von Eric Hilgendorf und Ketewan Mtschedlischwili-Hädrich eine internationale Tagung zum Medizinstrafrecht statt, deren Vorträge im vorliegenden Band dokumentiert werden. Er erörtert mit 16 Beiträgen georgischer und deutscher Strafrechtswissenschaftler in bislang nicht erreichter Bandbreite grundlegende Wertkonflikte des modernen Medizinstrafrechts. Diskutiert werden ethische und rechtliche Grundfragen der Sterbehilfe sowie besondere Haftungsfragen unter anderem zu Fahrlässigkeit, Unterlassen, Doping, Korruption im Gesundheitswesen, Schwangerschaftsabbruch und zum Transplantationsrecht. -- Der Band enthält die Beiträge in deutscher und in georgischer Sprache. / »Medical Criminal Law in German-Georgian Comparison«: With 16 contributions by Georgian and German criminal law scholars, this conference volume discusses fundamental value conflicts of modern medical criminal law in an unprecedented scope. Ethical and legal basic questions of euthanasia as well as special liability questions concerning negligence, omission, doping, corruption in health care, abortion and transplantation law are discussed.