The environment and human health across life and social sciences
How the environment, as inducer of health and disease states, is conceived and operationalized in life and social sciences?
Which attitude should we adopt toward the multiplicity of concepts and metrics of the environment across all these sciences?
Is such a plurality temporal and solvable, and how, or is it permanent and ineliminable?
And what does this imply for the research approach adopted in the life and in the social sciences?
The EnviroBioSoc project is structured in three tasks
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Working group “Social environment, biological incorporation” – 2nd meeting
Friday, December 11st 2020, at 9am Second virtual session of the groupe devoted to the notion of "biological embedding" as it has been discussed and used by Clyde Hertzman See, for instance, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23045673/. Presentation by Séverine Louvel....
Working group “Social environment, biological incorporation” – 1st session
Friday, October 16th, 2020 at 9am First virtual session of the groupe devoted to the discussion of Mathieu Arminjon's work on the history of the allostatic model. References: Arminjon, M. (2014). Allostasie: cérébralité, physiologie et normativité sociale. Bulletin...
Meeting “Epistemological and practical issues of integrative approaches in environmental health” – Lyon February 4-5, 2021
Comité d’organisation / Organizing committee Elodie Giroux, Yohan Fayet, Thibaut...
WORKSHOP « L’environnement : des sciences naturelles aux sciences humaines et sociales »
Workshop organisé par Francesca Merlin (IHPST), Gaëlle Pontarotti (IHPST) et Antoine C. Dussault (CIRST Montréal) 5-6 novembre 2020 par visio-conférence Zoom PROGRAMME 05 novembre 2020 Participer à la réunion Zoom :...
Welcome to Gaëlle Pontarotti, our new postdoc!
We are pleased to welcome Gaëlle Pontarotti, who will be hired on September 1st 2020 as postdoc in the context of the EnviroBioSoc project. She will work on « The concept(s) of environment as determinant of health and disease in life and social studies » & «...
Call for postdoc in philosophy of science: ANR project EnviroBioSoc
A postdoc position will be available at IHPST (Institut d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques, Paris, France - https://www.ihpst.cnrs.fr/) for one year, starting from September 1st 2020, renewable for a second year, within the French ANR funded...
