Programme and Timetable

École d'été de l'EHESS
à l'Institut Français de Pondichéry
27 février — 7 mars 2008

Health and Public Health, Pharmaceuticals, Bioethics,
Medical Practices and Institutions
Santé, médicament, droit de la santé et bioéthique,
institutions et pratiques médicales

Five full days of seminars or workshops
Cinq jours de travail intensif du 29 février au 4 mars 2008

Apologies for the few paragraphs in French below.
All presentations and discussions will of course be in English.

Five modules / Cinq modules
Two student workshops / Deux ateliers

Friday, February 29
VENDREDI 29 FEVRIER

Morning / Matin

1 / SOCIAL SCIENCES, PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICINE
Francis Zimmermann
Introduction to the Interdisciplinary Field — Five main dimensions:

• Pharmaceuticals, Economy and Politics,
• Alternative Medical Products and Orphan Drugs,
• Emergent issues: Gender, Disaster, &c,
• Social and Political History of Diseases,
• Ressources, our Knowledge of, and our Relationship to, the Natural Kingdom

2 / PUBLIC HEALTH
Patrice Bourdelais
The Centrality of the Concept of “Public Health”
La santé publique, terrain du Progrès et enjeu de la citoyenneté (XVIII-XXe siècles)

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Afternoon / Après-midi

(Premier module: Urfalino, Lalitha)

1 / PHARMACEUTICALS – 1
Philippe Urfalino
After the Withdrawal of Vioxx©
The state of tension in the pharmaceutical sector
since the withdrawal of Vioxx©, and the crisis of medicine agency authority

2 / PHARMACEUTICALS – 2
N. Lalitha
Issues in Patenting Biopharmaceuticals

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Saturday, March 1
SAMEDI 1er MARS

Morning / Matin

Laurent Pordié
Atelier des étudiants sur le premier module

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Afternoon/ Après-midi

(Second module: Banerjee, Dalgalarrondo)

1 / ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL PRODUCTS
Madhulika Banerjee
The Market for Alternative Medicine Products

2 / ORPHAN DRUGS
Sébastien Dalgalarrondo
Maladies rares et médicaments orphelins (orphan drugs),
une success story européenne (2000-2007)

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Sunday, March 2
DIMANCHE 2 MARS

Morning / Matin

(Troisième module: Abraham, Torny)

1 / EMERGENT ISSUES – 1
Leena Abraham
Gender Analysis of Traditional Medicines

2 / EMERGENT ISSUES – 2
Didier Torny
Waiting For the Disaster To Come:
A Comparative Pandemic Flu Planning Analysis

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Afternoon / Après-midi

(Quatrième module: Naraindas, Bourdelais)

1 / HISTORY OF DISEASES – 1
Harish Naraindas
Another History of Smallpox

2 / HISTORY OF DISEASES – 2
Patrice Bourdelais
The Fight Against Tuberculosis in France
During the Interwar Period: A First Public Health Network

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Monday, March 3
LUNDI 3 MARS

Morning / Matin

Caterina Guenzi
Atelier des étudiants sur le quatrième module

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Afternoon/ Après-midi

(Cinquième module: Gaudillière, Zupanov, Zimmermann)

1 / RESSOURCES – 1
Jean-Paul Gaudillière
The Property of Life
Biotechnology, Patents and Therapeutic Innovation in the 20th Century

2 / RESSOURCES – 2
Ines Zupanov
Philology and Natural Sciences; Archival World of a Missionary Traveller Paulinus à S. Bartholomaeo (18th-19th c.)

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Tuesday, Mars 4
MARDI 4 MARS

Morning / Matin

1 / RESSOURCES – 3
Francis Zimmermann
From Public Health to Medical Ethics, 1960s-1980s: Nature, Society, and the Individual

2/ TOWARDS PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS
A Conversation With the Students
Reflecting upon the last four days around two main issues :
1/ The triangulation of disciplines: Did historians, sociologists, anthropologists and participants coming from other disciplines benefit from interacting with each other for the last four days? And if it is so, from which angle of approach and in which sense did we really interact?
2 / Sources, Frameworks or Fieldworks, and Methods of Analysis: How do we construct our research objects and research procedures? With special reference to our respective terminologies (or metalanguages).

 

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Afternoon/ Après-midi

Table Ronde
General Discussion and a Provisory Synthesis

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(Pour mémoire: pour les enseignants venant de Paris:

Mercredi 5 mars: Journée libre à Pondichery
Jeudi 6 mars: Départ le matin, déjeuner à Mamallapuram, arrivée le soir à Chennai
Vendredi 7 mars: Journée libre à Chennai

Départ de Chennai pour Paris dans la nuit de Vendredi 7 à Samedi 8 mars)