International Health Humanities Network Membership

I am a philosopher, senior researcher in SPHERE (Centre national pour la recherche scientifique/Université Paris Diderot, France).

My research deals with ethical, political and anthropological issues related to medicine considered as a social practice and a form of knowledge. It focuses on contemporary medical decision at the patient’s bedside and its relationship with public health policies and the health system’s organization. It examines how epistemological choice, the conceptions of health and ethical values combine together to determine cure and care options. In addition, Marie Gaille has a strong interest for the history of medical thought, especially in the Renaissance era. I have published on these topics various books and articles (see my professional web page : http://www.sphere.univ-paris-diderot.fr/spip.php?article1040&lang=fr

I am especially interested in topics that directly relate to the perspectibe of Health Humanities : how phenomenology may contribute to understand and describe the patient's experience, narrative and clinical ethics; interdisciplinary work between philsophy, social anthropology, history, clinical psychology, and literature; use of artistic contributions to foster the understanding of ethical and poltiical issues in the field of health and environemental health; ordinary life of the patients and forms of life related to medical conditions