On the Inequality of Lives Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 16 January 2020

• Main Author: Fassin, Didier (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Paris Collège de France 2023
• Series: Leçons inaugurales
• Subjects: Illness & addiction: social aspects; Social discrimination & inequality; Medicine; society; health; public health; sociology; social science; anthropology; inequality; life; social inequality; life expectancy; lives; inequity
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

There is, on the one hand, life that flows from a beginning to an end, and, on the other hand, life that constitutes human singularity because it can be recounted. We may term them "biological life" and "biographical life". Life expectancy measures the length of the former; a lif...