ABSTRACT
From the point of view of death, disease has a land, a mappable territory, a subterranean, but secure place where its kinships and its consequences are formed; local values define its forms. Paradoxically, the presence of the corpse enables us to perceive it living-living with a life that is no longer that of either old sympathies or the combinative laws of complications, but one that has its own roles and its own laws.
