La décapitation post mortem de l’amiral de Coligny est un lieu commun des récits de la Saint-Barthélemy. Le devenir incertain de la tête coupée a donné cours à une tradition polémique au lendemain des tueries parisiennes de l’été 1572, à propos d’un complot princier, royal ou ultramontain contre le chef huguenot et les protestants français ; cette ...
Cette thèse étudie les transformations des savoirs et des pratiques biomédicales autour de l’intersexuation en France. Elle étudie l’émergence et la mise en place, au XXe siècle, d’un dispositif de médicalisation précoce des enfants ayant un sexe atypique en prenant pour exemple l’histoire d’une variation particulière – l’hyperplasie congénitale de...
Since 2011, fatal shark attacks occurred in Reunion Island and led to the "shark crisis", raising up different issues for humanities and social sciences. One of them consists in the links between science and society and particularly the issue related to the legitimacy of the scientific expertise evolving in a context of institutional crisis. From t...
Published in Social science & medicine (1982)
The controversy over packing therapy used in psychiatry was studied here to illustrate how leading associations can influence public health policies. The main French associations of parents with autistic children succeeded in obtaining the prohibition of packing, announced by the French Secretary of State to the Ministry of Health in April 2016. Pa...
Objectifs : L’objectif primaire a été d’étudier et de comparer le devenir obstétrical et néonatal à court terme chez des femmes enceintes porteuses d’un diabète gestationnel sans facteur de risque face à une population porteuse d’un diabète gestationnel avec facteurs de risque, suivies à l’hôpital de la Conception à Marseille. L’objectif secondaire...
Published in Current Treatment Options in Oncology
In the context of the new WHO classification system, all low-grade gliomas must have an IDH mutation, with or without 1p/19q codeletion. Upon discovery of the tumor, maximal safe surgical resection is the most appropriate first step due to the current inability to differentiate between IDH mutant and IDH wild–type tumors by imaging alone. In the po...
Feeding 9 billion people by 2050 on one hand, and preserving biodiversity on the other hand, are two shared policy goals at the global level. Yet while these goals are clear, they are to some extent in conflict, because agriculture is a major cause of biodiversity loss, and the path to achieve both of them is at the heart of a public controversy ar...
Published in The Science of the total environment
Feeding wild birds is a common and popular human-wildlife interaction throughout the world. However, controversy exists over the benefits and costs to the birds and humans involved. This bibliometric study documents wild bird feeding policies around the globe and examines environmental and socio-cultural factors which may influence the position ado...
Published in Annals of Telecommunications
This article presents a sociological study of the public controversy over electricity smart meters in France. It asks how this controversy has emerged nationally and how, rather than waning as a result of expertise produced to dispel uncertainty, it has instead grown stronger. Drawing on an in-depth cross-analysis of the French press published over...
Henri Basnage de Beauval (1656-1710) est né dans une famille protestante de la noblesse normande. Arrière-petit-fils, petit-fils, neveu, cousin et frère de pasteurs, il choisit pourtant de devenir avocat, à l’instar de son père, Henri Basnage de Franquesnay. Face à l’accélération des persécutions contre sa communauté confessionnelle, il prend la pl...
