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The EHESS Summer School in Pondicherry
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Objectives
The Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the French Institute of Pondicherry propose a series of intensive seminars and ateliers on the theme of health, in India and beyond. Issues of public health, pharmaceuticals, bioethics, medical practices and institutions will be explored by a group of French and Indian professors. The « Summer School » is directed to a limited number of selected Indian and European students and junior researchers. The aim of the Summer School is to strengthen Franco-Indian scientific cooperation and to prepare the ground for future collaboration.
A specific website is online at: http://ehess.dynamiques.fr/pondichery/, and will be regularly updated.
Organizers
Ecoles des hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and French Institute of Pondicherry
Coordinators
Francis Zimmermann (EHESS) and Laurent Pordié (IFP / CReCSS)
Profesoral Team
- Leena Abraham (TISS, Mumbai)
- Madhulika Banerjee (Delhi University)
- Patrice Bourdelais (EHESS),
- Sébastien Delgalarrondo (CNRS)
- Jean-Paul Gaudillière (EHESS)
- Caterina Guenzi (IFP/CEIAS)
- N. Lalitha (Gujarat Institute of Development Research)
- Harish Naraindas (Jawarhala Nehru University)
- Laurent Pordié (IFP/CReCSS)
- Didier Torny (INRA)
- Philippe Urfalino (EHESS)
- Francis Zimmermann (EHESS)
- Ines Zupanov (CEIAS/CNRS).
Participants
- Burton Cleetus (IFP, Jawarhala Nehru University)
- Katyayani Dalmia (Jawarhala Nehru University)
- Marion Delpeu (IFP / University of Bordeaux)
- Ritika Ganguli (University of Minnesota)
- M.S. Harilal (Centre For Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram)
- Parvathi Iyer (University of Hyderabad)
- Johannes Quack (University of Heidelberg)
- Sinjini Mukherjee (Jawarhala Nehru University)
- Dhrub Kumar Singh (Banaras Hindu University)
- Sylvain Ropiteau (EHESS, Paris)
- Roman Sieler (University of Heidelberg)
Programme
Friday, 29th February
| Morning | 1 / Social Sciences, Public Health and Medicine
Francis Zimmermann - Introduction to the Interdisciplinary Field - Five main dimensions:
2 / Public Health Patrice Bourdelais - The centrality of the concept of Public Health |
| Afternoon | First module 1 / Pharmaceuticals Philippe Urfalino - The state of tension in the pharmaceutical sector (USA, Europe) since the withdrawal of Vioxx, and the authority crisis of Western medicine agencies N. Lalitha - Issues in patenting biopharmaceuticals |
Saturday, 1st March
| Morning | Laurent Pordié - Atelier 1: Public Health and Pharmaceuticals |
| Afternoon | Second module 1 / Alternative medical products Madhulika Banerjee - The market for alternative medicine products 2 / Orphan drugs Sébastien Dalgalarrondo - Rares diseases and orphan drugs. A European success story (2000-2007) |
Sunday, 2nd March
| Morning | Third module 1 / Emergent issues Leena Abraham - Gender analysis of traditional medicines Didier Torny - Waiting for the disaster: A comparative bird flu disaster |
| Afternoon | Fourth module 1 / History of diseases Harish Naraindas - Another History of Smallpox Patrice Bourdelais - Fighting tuberculosis: the first public health network in France (1920-1940) |
Monday, 3rd March
| Morning | Caterina Guenzi - Atelier 2 : History of diseases |
| Afternoon |
Fifth module 1 / Resources JP. Gaudilliere - Questions d’appropriation et d’utilisation des ressources biologiques - végétales, animales et humaines - dans le contexte de transformation des régulations des biotechnologies et des rapports Nord-Sud. I. Zupanov - Philology and Natural Sciences; Archival World of a Missionary Traveller Paulinus à S. Bartholomaeo (18th-19th c.) |
Tuesday, 4th March
| Morning | Firth module (ctd.)
F. Zimmermann - From Public Health to Medical Ethics, 1960s-1980s: Nature, society, and the individual |
| Afternoon | Round table and synthesis |
Venue
Jawaharlal Nehru Conference Hall, French Institute of Pondicherry, 11, Saint Louis Street, Pondicherry - 605 001.
See also : Societies and Medicines in South Asia programme page.
Latest addition : 24 April 2008.