12 December 2021

Human and Social Sciences at the Bedside of Health?

How do public authorities address the numerous contemporary health issues? How do they position themselves with regard to definitions, organisation, regulation, care, and prevention? What […]
12 December 2021

Health and Politics

By Patrick Castel, Centre for the Sociology of Organisations The humanities and social sciences have long highlighted a key truth: health cannot be reduced to […]
12 December 2021

Are Communicable Diseases Only Communicable?

By Catherine Cavalin, IRISSO & LIEPP, and Paul-André Rosental, Centre for History Scope and Discussion of the Epidemiological Transition For half a century, the so-called […]
12 December 2021

The Agrofood Industry and Its Political Activities

By Daniel Benamouzig, Centre for the Sociology of Organisations and Joan Cortinas, Health Chair On 30 May 2018, the headline of Libération read ‘Comment les […]
12 December 2021

Governing the Genome for a Brave New World?

By Guillaume Levrier, Centre for Political Science Lulu and Nana just turned three years old. The announcement of their birth during the second Human Genome […]
12 December 2021

Between Drugs and Food: Inventing Microbiota Medicine

By Étienne Nouguez, Centre for the Sociology of Organisations For the past fifteen years or so, there has been so much enthusiasm over the microbiome […]
12 December 2021

Conspiracy Theories and Epidemics: What Ebola Can Teach Us

By Jules Villa, médialab From 2018 to 2020, an outbreak of Ebola virus disease hit the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri in eastern Democratic […]
12 December 2021

Doping for Work

By Renaud Crespin, Centre for the Sociology of Organisations While doping in the professional sports world regularly makes the headlines in the media, the idea […]
12 December 2021

Measuring the Quality of Care, a European Overview

By Anne-Laure Beaussier, Centre for the Sociology of Organisations Health care quality has become a subject of constant assessment efforts in many OECD countries. Such […]