Published in Minerva
The Aysén Hydroelectric Project in Chilean Patagonia proposed the construction of the country’s largest power facility to supply its capital, nearly 2,000 kilometres away. We seek to explain the way science, politics, law, business and the civilian population are joined up. To this end, we analyse the project’s evolution, the construction of techno...
Listening to music during surgery has a subjective benefit to patients under local anesthesia. Its setting up during quiet routine oculoplastic surgery is easy and inexpensive. When subject to some elementary precautions, there is no increased risk.
Cette communication rend compte d'une expérience pédagogique innovante de mise en fiction de la controverse sociétale autour du mariage pour tous en France en 2013. Elle insiste sur la valeur ajoutée du détour artistique pour traiter de la question de l'altérité : à la fois l'altérité des positions axiologiques sur un enjeu de société et l'altérité...
Published in PROSPECTS
This article proposes introducing a strategy of controversy into human rights curriculum. First, it refers to the development of human rights education in Latin America and illustrates how controversy can be incorporated in the different disciplines of the curriculum. Second, the article shows how human rights from a controversial perspective can b...
Published in Radiologic clinics of North America
A large body of evidence demonstrates a 30% to 50% mortality benefit of screening mammography for women aged 40 to 49. Because of more rapid cancer growth rates in younger women, annual screening is more effective than biennial. Studies indicate that selective screening of women aged 40 to 49 would miss the majority of breast cancers. If implemente...
Published in The American Sociologist
This article investigates the peculiar history of sociology of deviance and criminology in France, from the end of the 19th until now. In the 1880s, the criminal questions invade the intellectual debate. I show how sociology (Gabriel Tarde and the Durkheimians) was largely built against biomedical determinisms. Then, the criminal question has condu...
Published in World journal of gastroenterology
Biliary strictures are caused by a heterogeneous group of benign and malignant conditions, each requiring a specific treatment approach. Management of biliary strictures often involves endoscopy either for definite treatment, as a bridge to surgery or for palliative purposes. Endoscopic treatment of various types of biliary strictures is not standa...
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