National audience In mirror doctors’ hippocratic duties, patients’ rights have slowly emerged and the care relationship has gradually been captured by law. A fundamental shift was made by the Law of 4 March 2002, known as the ‘Kouchner Law’, which, inter alia, enshrined the rights of the person care...

We start from a double hypothesis. First, we propose to consider ambiguity as a structural dimension of the institutional relations where the involvement of the “whoever comes” in the exploration of the problems and complex decisions affecting him, and then we suggest that, in the same situations, t...

Buruli ulcer (UB), a skin bacterial infection, is caused by Mycobacium ulcerans. It affects often deprived communities living close to water. In the absence of early treatment, it leads to deformations and amputations.The declarations of Cotonou (2009) and London (2012) decline the strategies for co...

The Law of 4 March 2002 introduced into the Public Health Code an Article L. 1111-1 which ambiguously links the two concepts of patient responsibility and responsibility. That text thus lays the foundations for the liability of a patient who does not adopt a virtuous behaviour for his or her health....

recognising the role of patients in their care, UNICANCER launched a unique initiative in France in November 2011: the Patients’ Expectations Observatory. Through better knowledge and understanding of the experience and wishes of users, the latter aims to guide the development of the provision of ca...

‘titrebSummary’/titreb Health services are one of the sectors in which important information infrastructure has been developed for a long time and are formulated with ever more ambitious plans in this area. The rules for writing and authoritative principles for Patient Summaries are very closely spe...

‘titrebsumé’/titrebThe cranial trauma is a pathology of the young subject, with male predominance, the most common causes of which are road accidents and chutes.The main neurological deficiencies resulting from this are cognitivo-behavioural, motor (haemplege) and sensory disorders, balance disorder...

Severe septic syndromes deeply impair innate and adaptive immunity and are responsible for sepsis-induced immunosuppression. While neutrophils represent the first line of defense against infection, little is known about their phenotype and functions few days after sepsis, when the immunosuppressive...

Colloque organised by IODE UMR 6262, the Max-Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, with the support of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in Rennes

International audience Early access schemes for pharmaceuticals have been increasingly implemented worldwide with the objective of satisfying unmet medical needs or facilitating market access for certain innovative drugs. It allows for pharmaceuticals which have not yet obtained their marketing auth...

Among the many remarkable aspects of the June 2016 introduction of legislation to permit medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Canada, is the central and even dominant role that women have played in moving this legislation forward, and their ongoing influence as the law continues to be reviewed and...

If the person with cancer is vulnerable and needs specific care from a medical team, they also need to be re-established in their broken autonomy. In the face of illness, is it possible to preserve the autonomous aim of enabling the patient to make choices? Vulnerability regulated by law never runs...

International audience En France, depuis l’affaire du Mediator qui a causé la mort de plusieurs centaines de patients, la prévention des conflits d’intérêts s’est juridiquement renforcée dans le champ de la santé. La loi Bertrand de 2011 (1) a posé les principes d’une expertise intègre et indépendan...

This text aims to propose a reflection on parents’ access to information at the hospital before the turning point of “health democracy” when a child falls ill, the decision to consult a doctor lies with his/her parents. At the hospital, volens nolens, parents must share a decision-making space with...

In collaboration with the Mediterranean Ethics Space of the Timone Hospital (Marseille), the Alzheimer Ethics Research Area (EREMA Paris), the Fondation Médéric Alzheimer, the PACA Regional Health Agency, the Union Régionale des Associations Familiales (URAF PACA), the Conseil Général des Bouches-du...

[Summary] Preamble. — Part. I: Law of health: General background [Ch. 7. The Swiss health system: general presentation; 9. Disease prevention and health promotion]. — Health professionals and health institutions — patient-caregivers relations (informed choice of care; confidentiality of data; data c...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebSinSince 1995, MiRe has developed a research programme, mobilising teams of researchers in social sciences, in the field of medical and biomedical ethics. The aim was to broaden the approaches used so far and to bring these new expertise together with the experience of health w...

‘titrebSummary’/titreb. unlike in France and in other countries in the western world, there is no legal text governing palliative care in Tunisia. However, it is precisely at this level that the crucial problem arises of the pain of patients who are at the end of their illness and wish to take owner...

Cocaine addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder are two psychiatric disorders that have severe consequences. These two disorders have common features, including obsessive concerns and compulsive behaviors. The general objective of this work was to explore the processes that underlie the two dime...

As a follow-up to the preparatory work we carried out for the half-day of 29 May 2021 on the resonance of cultural beliefs in psychotherapies, and after exploring my clinic on this subject, one of my patients and my collision investigations are organising my reflection. I am thinking of Bassel’s pat...

Context: the Law of 11 February 2005 recognises the French sign language (LSF) and requires the introduction of measures to facilitate access to healthcare for Sourds.Objective: this study describes an outpatient facility providing primary care for Sourds.Methods: case study: quantitative and prospe...

'pbAWhen a tradition of asylum and hospitality laws at the root of social ties is devastated, how do hatred and fear of abroad impact on the practices of receiving folia? Nowadays, coercion and ‘non-consensus-free care’ come back without vergogne, while the virtues of deshospitalisation that discard...

CERVOXY/LDM TEP International audience Severe hypoxia [oxygen partial pressure (pO2) below 5–10 mmHg] is more frequent in glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) compared to lower-grade gliomas. Seminal studies in the 1950s demonstrated that hypoxia was associated with increased resistance to low–linear energ...

Huntington's disease is neurodegenerative, genetic, rare, multifaceted and has a long evolution, inducing heterogeneity of conditions and progression of the disease. Current biotherapy trials are performed on small samples of patients, with a treatment effect measurable in the long-term that is hete...

The obligation to maintain the privacy of patients and research participants is foundational to biomedical research. But there is growing concern about the challenges of keeping participant information private and confidential. A number of recent studies have highlighted how emerging computational s...