Dès lors que les médicaments servent non seulement à soigner des malades, mais désormais aussi modifier performances humaines, ce changement de paradigme la pratique médicale participe brouiller frontières entre médecine thérapeutique et dite d’amélioration ou d’augmentation. Le constat l’effacement ces nous amène ainsi interroger le médicament, souvent qualifié dans littérature concernant comm...

We set up and analyze a model of radiation damping within the framework of continuum mechanics, inspired by a model of post-Newtonian hydrodynamics due to Blanchet, Damour and Schäfer. In order to simplify the problem as much as possible we replace the gravitational field by the electromagnetic field and the fluid by kinetic theory. We prove that the resulting system has a well-posed Cauchy pro...