François Briatte

Sections: Cancer control · Health policy · Health inequalities · Intellectual property · Miscellaneous

For a full list of papers, please refer to my HAL-SHS records and to my current CV.
For the conference panel I co-organised with Thibault Bossy, please refer to the Contemporary Biopolitics page.

Cancer control

Le cancer en plans. L'État et la lutte contre le cancer en France et en Angleterre, années 1990–2000
PhD dissertation (in progress), Institute of Political Studies, University of Grenoble, exp. 2010.
Institutionnalisation et médiatisation d'une prise de parole collective chez les malades atteints de cancer : les ‘États généraux’ de la Ligue nationale contre le cancer
Co-authored with Sandrine Knobé; published in Hélène Romeyer (ed.), La santé dans l'espace public, Presses de l'EHESP, 2010.
Review of K. Kedrowski and M. Sarow, Cancer Activism. Gender, Media, and Public Policy, 2007
Published in Sociology of Health & Illness, 31, 2009.
The Principles and Politics of Cancer Care in England
Paper presented at the ESPANET Annual Conference, University of Helsinki, 18-20 September 2008.
More evidence on NHS targets and patient choice; Targets and cancer in the Conservative Party Health Green Paper; The Cancer Reform Strategy and UK government publications in cancer control, 1995-2006
Documentary reviews, Intute Social Sciences Blog, 2007-2008.
Governing the Cancer Care State. Cancer Control and Contemporary Health Policy in England and France
MSc by Research in Social Policy dissertation, Department of Social Policy, University of Edinburgh, September 2007.

Here's a Wordle of my research on cancer control policy-making.

Health policy

A Case of Weak Architecture: The French Ministry of Health
Forthcoming paper on the French Ministère de la Santé, from an institutional and historical perspective. Please email if you hold extensive data on that topic. All data on the English Department of Health also very welcome.
France
Co-authored with Scott Greer; published in his book, Making European Health Policy in Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom, Open University Press, 2009.
Review of A. Hann (ed.), Health Policy and Politics, 2007
Published in Medical Sociology Online, 4, 2009.

Health inequalities

L'histoire politique des inégalités de santé en France et en Angleterre
Published in Chantiers politiques, 7, 2009.
Review of V. Navarro (ed.), Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Inequalities, 2007
Published in the Journal of European Social Policy, 19, 2009.
Research and political contexts of acknowledgement for social inequalities in health
Letter published online by the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2008.
Review of E. Dowler, N. Spencer (eds), Challenging Health Inequalities. From Acheson to ‘Choosing Health’, 2007
Published in Medical Sociology Online, 3, 2008.
Réduire les inégalités de santé en France et en Grande-Bretagne. Éléments d'analyse comparée
MSc by Research in Political Science dissertation, Institute of Political Studies, University of Grenoble, June 2006.
Appendix on the Ministry of Health: Intitulés et rangs des ministères chargés de la santé (reprinted in Greer & Briatte).
Un exemple de déphasage entre activité gouvernementale et activité de recherche. Le rapport Black et la recherche sur les inégalités de santé
Paper presented at the C2SO/CRICS seminar “Engagements, déplacements, résistances dans les pratiques de recherche au quotidien”, École Normale Supérieure - Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon, May 2006.

Intellectual property

Activisme sur Internet et discours stratégiques autour de la propriété intellectuelle
Co-authored with Yana Breindl; published in Terminal, 103–104, 2009. I am currently collecting news reports and other data on the DAVDSI and HADOPI bills.
Parliamentary controversy expansion over Digital Rights Management in France
Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Rennes, February 2008.
Data from parliamentary debates : December 2005; March 2006.

Disclosure of interest: although not an activist myself, I have signed two petitions launched by interest groups which oppose the DADVSI and HADOPI bills. My opinion on whether the bills constitute appropriate legislation does not influence my results.

Miscellaneous

Quelle réforme du système de santé aux États-Unis ?
Published in Le Mensuel de l'Université, April 2009.
See also Jacob Hacker's full paper in Politics & Society, 2009, and a shorter piece by Rubin Minhas and Claus Wendt in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2009. I am currently collecting news reports on the 2009 health reform.
L'élection du 4 novembre 2008 et la marge de manœuvre du nouveau président américain
Published in Pouvoirs, 128, 2009.
See also Étienne Ollion's co-authored paper, Et Obama conquit l'Amérique, in Mouvements, 2008, Sven Steinmo's paper Will Barack Obama Change America?, and Lexington's piece, Leading the lawmakers, in The Economist, 2009.
Data: Exit polls (CNN, New York Times, 2008).
Review of D. Della Porta and M. Keating, Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences. A Pluralist Perspective, 2008
Published in the Graduate Journal of Social Science, 2008.
Comparaison inter-classements des revues en sociologie-demographie et en science politique
Published in Bulletin de méthodologie sociologique, 100, 2008.
Data: Classements pour la science politique ; Effectifs par rangs.
DOI: 10.1177/075910630810000109
Un stigmate épistémologique. Le relativisme dans le strong programme de David Bloor, followed by Entretien avec David Bloor
Article and interview published in Tracés, 12, 2007.
PDF proofs: article, interview.

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