Past projects

• "Rare disabilities" in a changing medical-social sector –Social-historical analysis of the construction and practical uses of this category between 1960 and 2013 (HARASOHI)

  IRESP contract (2014-2017) | Cermes3 Coordinator: Myriam Winance, Cermes3 The goal of this project is to draw up a social-historical analysis of the construction and practical uses of the “rare disabilities” category.It aims to understand the transformations of an initial problem,...

• Chinese migrations in France facing Covid-19: the emergence of new forms of solidarity in times of crisis (MigraChiCovid)

  ANR Project (2020-2022) Coordinator: Simeng Wang, Cermes3 The MigraChiCovid Research Project (“Chinese migrations in France facing Covid-19: the emergence of new forms of solidarity in times of crisis”) is funded by the National Research Agency (France). This project aims to study ...

• DPN-Hp: The stakes of prenatal diagnosis (PND) in the prevention of disabilities: Using technology between scientific progress and public action

  ANRS Contract (2009-2011) | Cermes3 Coordinator: Isabelle Ville (Cermes3) In the majority of Western countries, prenatal diagnosis and screening (PND) technologies have become a practically inevitable stage of pregnancy monitoring. Given the absence of a curative solution for a number of diag...

• EHLEIS (European Health and Life Expectancy Information System) joint action

  Contracts: European Commission, DREES, CNSA (2011-2014) | Cermes3 Coordinator:Jean-Marie Robine, Cermes3 Monitoring the evolution of life expectancy at birth is no longer sufficient in countries with low mortality and fertility rates like France and Germany because in a context of increasing ...

• Exiting addiction (Change)

  MILDT Paris 13 - PREVDROG contract (2011-2013) | Cermes3 Coordinator:Laurence Simmat-Durand The determinants and evolution of drug use are complex to establish.Risk reduction is currently the dominant paradigm for reflecting on the relationship to drugs in our society.This policy has allowed ...

• From International to Global: Knowledge, Diseases, and the Postwar Government of Health (GLOBHEALTH)

  ERC Contract (2014-2018) | Cermes3 Coordinator: Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Cermes3 This project aims at a socio-historical study of the transition between the two regimes of knowledge and action, which have characterized the government of health after World War II: the regime of international pub...

• Giving meaning to cancer in the era of genomics

  Contract INCa (2018-2021) | Cermes3 Coordinators: Claire Beaudevin and Catherine Bourgain, Cermes3 Until recently, the genetic molecularisation of cancer has had only a limited impact on clinical management and on the organisation of care. But with the development of targeted therapies and as...

• High-throughput genomics and personalized medicine:knowledge and regulations

  Labex Sites contract – exploratory project (2014-2015) | Cermes3, University of Paris Est Marne La Vallée, Inserm, Labex Sites Coordinator: Catherine Bourgain, Cermes3 This project is interested in the technology of high-throughput genomics in the context of the development of so...

• HIV and hepatitis seroprevalence survey and understanding risk behavior among drug users: Innovative methods and populations difficult to reach (Coquelicot survey)

  ANRS Contract (2012-2015) | Cermes3 Coordinator: Marie Jauffret-Roustide, Cermes3 Drug users (DUs) constitute a population that is particularly at risk with regard to HIV and the different types of hepatitis.In France, the prevalence data has long been based on declarative data covering non-r...

• Illicit Circulations of Pharmaceuticals in Southeast Asia: Trajectories, Objects, Multiplicities

  Observatoire des Trafics Illicites contract (2013-2014) | Cermes3 ; IRASEC Bangkok Coordinator: Laurent Pordié, Cermes3 This project is interested in the illicit circulations of drugs, focusing on the frontier zones separating countries of the Mekong Basin, including Cambodia...

• Impact assessment and adaptation to the Covid-19 crisis (COVADAPT)

  Coordinator for Cermes3: Xavier Briffault The 2020 Covid-19 coronavirus global crisis is exceptional in world history for its scale and impact. We need to move beyond this crisis, but we also need to understand how best to help the people living with it, at all scales. We need to understand t...

• Lay perception and management of drug-related risks (PeGePRiM)

  ANSM Contract (2014-2016) | Cermes3 Coordinator: Sylvie Fainzang, Cermes3 Users’ awareness of the risks associated with drugs leads them to modify the terms of use of their drugs (whether they are prescribed by a doctor, are recommended by a pharmacist, or are chosen as self-medication)...

• New approaches to psychiatric care:Clinical and sociological perspectives (SO-PSY)

  CNRS Interdisciplinary Mission contract (2013-2016) | Cermes3, GDR 3557 and 3CRP (Sainte-Anne Hospital complex), Centre Norbert Elias UMR 8562 (Marseille) Coordinator: Alain Erhenberg, Cermes3 The project associates clinical and sociological research to work out fine-grained descriptive clini...

• On coercion and consent:Rearranging regulations in mental-health practices (CONTRAST)

  ANR contract (2013-2016) | Cermes3 Coordinators: Livia Velpry, Cermes3; Benoit Eyraud, Lyon2/Centre MaxWeber In the past few decades, the legal, administrative, and ethical rules governing professional care practices have given the principle of consent greater importance in the health, social...

• Parents and families of persons suffering from a mental disability: involvement, needs, and expectations, 20 years later

  Picri Région Ile-de-France contract (2010/2013) Coordinator : Martine Bungener This project, the result of a collaboration between a research team (Cermes3) and the Unafam (Union Nationale des Amis et Familles des Malades et Handicapés Psychiques), aimed at exploring the perceptions, difficul...

• Past projects

  Past projects  

• Prenatal diagnosis and prevention of disabilities: Women’s and couples’ experience

  Ile de France Region contract – PICRI (2014-2017) | Cermes3, Collectif inter-associatif autour de la naissance (CIANE) Coordinator: Isabelle Ville, Cermes3 The goal of this project is to study the practices of prenatal screening and diagnosis (PND), in two specific and innovative direct...

• Preserving what is seen as having value:A permanent dilemma for families affected by Alzheimer’s disease.Home care availabilities and dynamics

  Fondation Plan Alzheimer contract (2013-2015) | Cermes3 Coordinator: Catherine Le Galès, Cermes3 Appreciating the dynamics of the entourage’s involvement in the care of patients affected by Alzheimer’s disease is crucial because of the negative evolution of this pathology a...

• Providing support to persons with Alzheimer’s disease:between freedom and responsibility (Aupama Resp-Lib)

  Fondation de coopération scientifique Plan Alzheimer contract (2009-2013) | Cermes3 Coordinators:Catherine Le Galès, Martine Bungener In France, individual responsibility and national solidarity are jointly established in the middle of public policy relating to Alzheimer’s...

• Psychiatric fringes: A historical and sociological investigation of early psychosis and related phenomena in postwar French and German societies

  ANR-DFG & City of Paris – Programme Emergence(s) contract (2012-2015) | Cermes3; Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin Coordinator: Nicolas Henckes, Cermes3 This research project explores the history and the sociology of the ideas and practices developed around the generic ...

• Putting one’s body on the line. An ethnology of a consultation for suicidal adolescents

  Contract DREES / Observatoire National du Suicide (2019-2020 | CERMES3 Coordinator : Philippe Le Moigne, CERMES3 (in collaboration with Margot Morgiève) The vulnerability of adolescents faced with the risk of suicide, regardless of what form it takes, is increased today by tensions originatin...

• Situated analysis of disabilities associated with severe and resistant obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) for the creation of innovative compensation arrangements for mental disabilities (ADAOCD)

  IRESP CNSA Contract (2014-2016) | Cermes3 Coordinator: Xavier Briffault, Cermes3 Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a severe mental disorder, a disability that deteriorates the quality of life of patients and their close relations and has important medical-economic consequences.The determ...

• Social and epistemological history of psychiatric epidemiology:A case study in Senegal (SEHPE)

  Agence Nationale de Recherche contract (2013-2016) | Cermes3; Columbia University Coordinator: Anne Lovell, Cermes3 SEHPE aims to develop foundations for a social and epistemological history of psychiatric epidemiology.This discipline has practically never been studied as a historical or anth...

• Specialization of care practices involving consent and coercion in care of Alzheimer’s disease (SpéciAlz)

  Fondation Plan Alzheimer - Fondation Médéric Alzheimer Contract (2014-2015) | Cermes3, Centre Max Weber Coordinator:Benoît Eyrault, Centre Max Weber Cermes3:Aude Béliard The SpéciAlz project focuses on care practices that can involve coercion and regulation, ...

• Study of the history of labour inspection associations (end of 20th-beginning of 21st centuries)

  Contract with the Ministère du travail (2017-2020) | CERMES3 Coordinator: Vincent Viet, CERMES3 During the 1980s, labour inspectors took the initiative of creating associations of labour inspection. The Villermé association was founded in 1982, then the L611-10 association some time later. Th...

• The challenges of inclusive schooling in France:From expectations to concrete procedures

  Institut de Recherche en Santé Publique contract (2014-2017) | Cermes3 Coordinator: Isabelle Ville, Cermes3 This program questions the concept of inclusive schooling based on the relevant regulatory texts, the discourses, and the protagonists’ experience, confronting these differ...

• The experience of discrimination and racism of people of Asian - East and South East Asian - origin in France (REACTAsie)

  Rights Defender Contract (2020-2022) Coordinator: Simeng Wang, Cermes3 The REACTAsie project ("The experience of discrimination and racism of people of Asian origin - from East and South-East Asia - in France") is funded by the Defender of Rights for a period of 18 months (October 2020 - Marc...

• The meaning of agitation in children:Quests diagnostics, family involvement, and professional views around reputedly “hyperactive children” (SAGE)

  Pfizer Foundation contract (2014-2016) | Cermes3, Cerlis, CeRIES, Cref Coordinator: Aude Béliard, Cermes3 This research project aim is to study the trajectories (from their first contact with educational institutions to their entry into adolescence) of children designated as hyperactiv...

• The price of cancer. The political and economic sociology of therapeutic innovations

  Contract: National Institute of Cancer (2018-2021) |CERMES3 Coordinator: Pierre-André Juven, CERMES3 Starting from the observation of the very high cost of medicines for fighting cancer and the important stakes for the sustainability of the health system, this research project aims to produce...