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Fukushima: The Unremitting Disaster

An Interview with Paul Jobin, sociologist

by David Bornstein & Bernard Thomann & translated by Susannah Dale, 13 April 2012

Paul Jobin, who has been monitoring workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant, provides an analysis of the Japanese government’s denial of the health implications for these workers and, more broadly, (...)

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Race and Health in Post Civil Rights America

Interview with Alondra Nelson

by Pauline Peretz, 1 September 2011

Do special health programs for Black people and practices such as genealogical ancestry testing represent a risk of regression to a medical Apartheid in today’s America? For Alondra Nelson, health (...)

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The Precariousness Syndrome

About : Jean Furtos, De la précarité à l’auto-exclusion, Éditions Rue d’Ulm

by Nicolas Duvoux, 17 January 2011

While sociological and philosophical studies of social suffering are proliferating, the psychiatrist Jean Furtos casts a clinical eye on the relations between mental health and precariousness. He (...)

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The Century of the Hygienist

About: G. Jorland, Une société à soigner. Hygiène et salubrité publiques en France au XIXe siècle, Gallimard.

by Thomas Le Roux, 24 December 2010

How did physician-chemists go about putting public hygiene on the agenda during the nineteenth century? Constructing a panorama of their ambitions and projects, Gérard Jorland gives us a sweeping (...)

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Rebel with a Prescription: Eminem, or America on Drugs

by Sylvie Laurent, 23 October 2009

Eminem, like millions of Americans, just strolls down to his local pharmacist. Thus at a time when the country is questioning its future state of health, the inspired artist exposes the hidden (...)

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Is America Sick with Inequality?

About : D. S. Massey, Categorically Unequal, Russel Sage Foundation.

by Mirna Safi, 19 February 2009

Douglas Massey’s book, Categorically Unequal, draws up an instructive inventory of inequality in the United States. A classic study of social stratification, it is complemented by a discussion of (...)

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Red Ribbon and Black Silence

Obama, AIDS and Blacks

by Sylvie Laurent, 2 October 2008

How is it possible to talk about the ravages of AIDS on the Black population of the United States without leaving oneself open to being viewed as racist, moralizing or simply communitarian? (...)

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