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...

“S'il y a quelque chose qui revient de droit à l'anthropologie, ce n'est pas la tâche d'expliquer le monde d'autrui, mais bien celle de multiplier notre monde”Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (2009)Une nomade pas comme les autres…Cet ouvrage est dédié à notre collègue et amie, Claudine Karlin. Ingénieure...

The “pygmy” Aka hunter-gatherers have developed a lifestyle based on displacements, which structure their technical, economic and social organisation. Their mobility depends on their relationships with the other communities of the same forest. In this article, we shall briefly describe the Aka’s org...

The neuroGenderings project recalls an interdisciplinary programme “Neurosciences Critiques” (Critical Neuroscience). The possibility of developing feminist Neurosciences and queer is, however, limited by the problematic way in which critical practices are designed within this programme. The “Critic...

This article is based on the evidence of life story interviews with members of 45 families who have kin in Jamaica, Britain and North America. It argues that the transnational Jamaican form of family is based on a complex but informal and pragmatic type of family structure which has characterised Ja...

Self-determination has been a major research topic in the field of intellectual disability (DI) for about 30 years. Since people with DI can now aspire to a longer life, it becomes necessary to consider their level of self-determination after 40 years. This mapping of the written documents published...

The research deals with the ownership of a second home. The field work has been done in two villages. The main research area are kinship, ownership, sense of belonging.

‘titrebSummary’/titreb. with examples, the author shows that a psychanalysis or psychotherapy over the age of 70 can be an exciting experience to reconstruct his internal history in order to put the end of his life on his full path. It is often a question of overcoming the conflict between freezing...

Les sciences humaines et sociales sont souvent attaquées sur l'opacité de leurs objets d'étude, de leurs pratiques et de leurs résultats. En réalité, elles pâtissent seulement d'une insuffisance de visibilité, due à l'absence d'outil performant de mesure et de caractérisation. Ainsi, la base de donn...

Lors du débat télévisé de l’entre-deux-tours de l’élection présidentielle française, Nicolas Sarkozy a déclaré : « pour tout nouvel entrant (…) je propose que, dans tous nos consulats, soit organisé un examen de français avant l'entrée sur le territoire pour toute personne ayant un âge qui dépasse 1...

The discussion in this chapter highlights how and how the home tracking of older patients at the end of life questions how general practitioners position themselves in the exercise of their medical practice and define their professional role, referring to a field of acquired skills and knowledge of...

In border areas, the marking of the multiple legal affiliations of Former Regime tends to erase as a result of the gradual linearisation of inter-state boundaries over the 18th and nineteenth centuries. However, some anomalies persist and give rise to strong conflicts involving all levels of governm...

Since the late 70s, the famous Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has produced black and white portraits of people affected by social suffering. In particular, people in Tiers-Monde countries. Although it is not an art photography, its images prevail over the quality of their aesthetic composi...

Accompagner to the end or story of a personal experience, that of a volunteer who is accompanying people at the end of their lives in palliative care services or in various hospital services, is the subject of this article. We will stress a few points: first of all, an accompanying volunteer at JALM...

in supporting people at the end of their lives, families face a number of renunciation, such as a destiny or joint projects. It is not yet a question of bereaving work, as the person remains alive, but these various losses then force the family to accept this separation without ceasing to invest in...

Women play an essential role in the domestic setting. They are the wives, mothers and servants existing in every family and in every class. As the medieval proverb : « les mains des femmes, comme les dents des chevaux, ne peuvent être en repos » which means « Women’s hands, like horses’s teeth, can...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebA at the end of a talking topic, the proposal for a clinical meeting may give rise to singular psychological constructions. Around the meaning and nonsense of what is happening for the subject, these designs are trying to shape the confusion of desire and life that is coming to...

The issue of serious illness and death in prison remains controversial regardless of the prison and political system because it profoundly affects what underpins our humanity. In this ‘double test’, severely ill detainees reveal to us what seems acceptable or unacceptable, just and unfair to our com...

Le rôle d'intermédiaire entre la population et le gouvernement que LEISERSON attribue aux partis politiques ne peut être rempli de façon adéquate que si le parti politique réussit à se constituer en organisation, c'est-à-dire que si le parti réussit à regrouper plusieurs individus dont il coordonner...

National audience How social inequalities in tobacco consumption in France are affected by age and generations? In order to answer that question, the data collected in 2010 from 27653 people were used to reconstruct retrospectively the smoking path of three birth cohorts (1941-1955,1956-1970 and 197...

for what cultural reasons do we pay such anxiety to the nutrition of people at the end of life? Medical death is still to come when social dupuscles and later extinction of sensory and bodily deceptiveness suggest their own destiny to caregivers and families. By way of hypothesis, a number of explan...

Starting university is a period of major transition with many changes in roles, statuses, and environments. This transitional period corresponds to the beginning of the becoming an adult. The developmental challenge of this time involves autonomy and independence issues. Autonomy and independence ar...

While the lockdown was justified by the protection of the weakest and, more specifically, older people, the care of elderly people accommodated in EHPAD has been the subject of criticism and litigation before the President of the Council of State for interim measures. If EHPAD is not a hospital, the...

We have recently carried out a Panquauc postal survey to find out about the attitudes of various groups towards the idea of extending medical aid for dying (MA) to people in a situation of unfitness. Here we present the results of qualitative analyses of the comments left by respondents at the end o...