A5087576739- French Urban and Social Studies
- Historical and Scientific Studies
- Historical Medical Research and Treatments
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Healthcare Systems and Practices
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Social Sciences and Governance
- History of Science and Medicine
- Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
- Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
- Health, Medicine and Society
- Medical History and Research
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
- Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Biotechnology and Related Fields
- French Historical and Cultural Studies
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Intellectual Property and Patents
- Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2011-2025
Centre de Recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé, Santé Mentale, Société
2015-2025
École des hautes études en sciences sociales
2009-2023
Inserm
2012-2022
Institut National de Recherche en Santé Publique
2008-2021
Redress
2019
Centre de Recherche Médicale et Sanitaire
1997-2014
Éditions Gallimard (France)
2014
Université Paris Cité
2011-2012
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
2000-2012
The relationship between medicine and the study of life is as old itself. Nevertheless, historians have highlighted great transformation that took place in nineteenth century when first physiology then bacteriology became important resources for classification, diagnosis, treatment human diseases. In period, significant links developed sites specializing biological experimentation (i.e. laboratories) on one hand, places healing hospitals, dispensaries) public health offices other. Together,...
In so-called traditional medicine in South Asia, substances have not ordinarily been prescribed or consumed isolation, yet the transformations of compound formulations comparatively little studied from any position within anthropology history. Since early twentieth century, ayurvedic often redesigned to address biomedical disorders a new global clientele. This has involved overlapping medical cultures and creation heterodox epistemologies, which then allowed "traditional" products that suit...
Tests for hereditary predispositions to breast and ovarian cancer have figured among the first medical applications of new knowledge gleaned from Human Genome Project. These set off heated debates on general issues such as intellectual property rights. The genetic diagnosis risks, management women “at risk” has nevertheless developed following highly localized paths. There are major differences in organization testing, uses tests, follow up patients. This article studies testing practices...
For the past twenty years Indian Ayurvedic medicine has experienced a profound transformation originating in complex process of industrialization and unequal but significant integration within world global pharmacy. The reformulation classical combinations medicinal plants described centuries-old reference texts used by practitioners lies at heart this process. Reformulation means same time simplifying standardizing polyherbal order to (1) adapt them mass mechanized industrial processing,...
Les questions écologiques sont désormais au cœur des nouvelles luttes de classe, nous disent Bruno Latour et Nikolaj Schultz dans le mémo qu’ils viennent d’envoyer aux membres partis écologistes à leurs électeur·rices 1 . Ils reviennent avec sur leur vision cette transformation radicale, l’émergence l’habitabilité comme enjeu central, ce que la classe écologique fait gauche quête d’une nouvelle hégémonie.
This article follows the introduction of COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) diagnostic tests in France. It shows how, at intersection science, medicine, politics, and policy-making, test, trace, isolate (TTI) strategy played out during first months pandemic against a backcloth multiple shortages. In so doing, authors move beyond trite explanations (such as ‘French public health’s backwardness’) to highlight how successive policy inflections affected national response pandemic. The...