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L'hôpital

Pour une nouvelle anthropologie des espaces cliniques
The hospital. For a new anthropology of clinical spaces
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Credits: D'après une photographie originale d'Emmanuel Meillan-Kehr

In the past 20 years, the hospital has become a privileged field site for medical anthropologists. But what is a hospital? Is it only an architectural formation that allows for the practice of contemporary biomedicine? A space permeable and clearly delimited, structured and open, unpredictable and opaque, medical and non-medical, the modern hospital constantly undergoes rapid technological and economic change. It harbours the traces of past medicines and produces memories and emotions for those who have resided, worked there or supported close ones undergoing treatment and care. This special issue approaches the research object « hospital » by linking specific hospital places to the professional practices exercised in its realms, be they medical, nursing, bureaucratic or managerial. Taken together, the contributions incite to study hospitals not only as ethnographic field sites, but also as singular anthropological locations, in order to understand how each hospital exists in its particularity – for patients, professionals and families – and how it arranges medicine and care. In the degree that we detach our ethnographic view from the problems specific to hospital medicine, it becomes possible to apprehend the productions and proprieties of hospitals as such.

  • Dossier thématique

    L'hôpital
    Special section: The Hospital
    Edited by Fanny Chabrol and Janina Kehr
  • Hors thème

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    • Carine Baxerres, Ines Boko, Adjara Konkobo, Fatoumata Ouattara and Agnès Guillaume
      Situations affectives et pratiques populaires d’avortement
      Managing unwanted pregnancies in Benin and Burkina Faso: affective situations and popular abortion practices
    • Caroline Chautems
      Construction du corps maternel et enjeux identitaires autour des pratiques d'allaitement au sein
      When breastfeeding 'makes' the mother. Construction of the maternal body and identity issues around breastfeeding practices
    • Caroline Desprès
      Production de sens et identité dans la maladie d’Alzheimer
      To hide or to lie? Creating meaning and identity in Alzheimer disease
    • Camille Lancelevée and Caroline Protais
      L’expérience de personnes déclarées irresponsables pour cause de trouble mental
      I wasn’t really myself”. The experience of people acquitted by reason of insanity
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