Keynotes

Uncertain evidence: scales, bodies and environments in obesity science  This paper examines the uncertainties raised by flows operating between the production of evidence and the making of policy in

Bonvalet Perrine Diffusing Medical Knowledge to Developing Countries : The Role of a Medical Network in the AIDS Care Policy in Benin. The prevailing role played by international organizations in

Global health’s new ‘geographies of responsibility’: Spatial and temporal domaining in virtual drug development The organization, funding and implementation of global health research is undergoing

Regulating EBM standards: Guidelines for guideline development My doctoral dissertation is entitled In search of standards that avoid standardization: the production and regulation of evidence based

Experimentality, locality, and the gut: Treatment and the internal frontiers of the body The paper examines the emerging production of a standardised body of knowledge concerning gut functioning in

Weighting bodies in the South Pacific: the BMI index in the Kingdom of Tonga Weighting bodies in the South Pacific: the BMI index in the Kingdom of TongaAccording to the 2000 WHO Report on Obesity

Vitor Simonis Richter “Births and data: artifacts and mediations in the everyday practices of the production of population in Porto Alegre, Brazil.” Maud Gelly  “Les armes de la critique et la

Randomised controlled trials, health agencies and consumer organisations: the case of Intrinsa and Flibanserin Randomized controlled trials (RCT) are now considered the ‘gold standard’ of clinical

Gaborone, Botswana : constitution of an attractive site for AIDS research : between the production of knowledge and government of population Transnational biomedical research has played a key role

Experimental Communities: Mediating locality in clinical trial sites in South Africa More than twenty years into the HIV epidemic in South Africa, the impacts of HIV/AIDS and other diseases, and the

Stretching comparisons : African field in French vaccination schedule (1970-1990) During the second half part of the twentieth century, epidemiologists of vaccines and infectious diseases had

Bauer Susanne Modeling population health. Reflections on the performativity of epidemiological techniques in the age of genomics  Like accounting in the world of business, practices of quantification