Reticence towards organ removal. Selfishness or resistance towards biopower? A question of classification

This article offers to clarify the question of "organ donation" (as well as the issue of reluctance brought on by this "donation") by following a reco nstructive method of the classifcations through which the subjects constitu te or interpret this question. The reconstructive method works in two phase s : first, the rebuilding of the two contradictory discourses (or demonstra tives logics) which developed from the problem or "organ donation"; second, the establishing of mostly pre-demonstrative representations on a question on wich many of the subjects, in everyday lift, have not yet elaborated a justified reasoning. These representations are addressed trough the results of a survey (n = 208) which included questions about association and evoca tion. This investigation leads to destabilizing the qualification of "donat ion" imposed by the "transplanters community". It proposes to both take ser iously the: "transplantors community" and prevent the monopolisation by the medical technologies of the symbolic power of "telling" the life and the d eath.