François Briatte

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. 2011.

The Europeanization of Health System Performance. The EUROCARE study and Cancer Control in England

Presented at the Council for European Studies (CES) 17th International Conference, Montreal, 15-17 April 2010.
An updated version was presented at the 8th ESPANET Annual Conference, Budapest, 2-4 September 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 M. Klawiter, The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer: Changing Cultures of Disease and Activism, 2008

Published in Sociology of Health & Illness, 32, 2010.

Review of K. Kedrowski and M. Sarow, Cancer Activism. Gender, Media, and Public Policy, 2007

Published in Sociology of Health & Illness, 31, 2009.
Discussion: the review has been followed by a debate at the SHI forums.

The Principles and Politics of Cancer Care in England

Paper presented at the ESPANET Annual Conference, 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

Published in Social Policy & Administration, 44, 2010.

Making European Health Policy in 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.

I also have a course on health care and public health in Western democracies.

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.

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.

I also have a course on health inequalities.

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 that oppose the DADVSI and HADOPI bills. My opinion on whether the bills constitute appropriate legislation has no influence whatsoever on my research question, methodology or findings.

I am planning to list some of my news sources on intellectual property.

Miscellaneous

Review of J. Moses and T. Knutsen, Ways of Knowing. Competing Methodologies in Social and Political Research, 2007

Published in the Graduate Journal of Social Science, 2010.

La comparaison pair-à-pair dans l'univers des cadres interprétatifs de l'analyse politique comparée.

Paper presented at the workshop Écrire la comparaison, École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, June 2010.
See also Sidney Tarrow's original paper on paired comparison in Comparative Political Studies, 2010, which I discuss and expand in my own. A short version of Tarrow's strategy also appeared in the APSA-CP newsletter, Summer 1999.

Quelle réforme du système de santé aux États-Unis ?

Published in, and commissioned by, Le Mensuel de l'Université, April 2009; paper, without illustration.
See also Jacob Hacker's full paper in Politics & Society, 2009, and my radio interview with France Info on March 22, 2010 for later coverage on the anticipated effects of the final bill.

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.

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.