Publication : What does the French public consider to be a conflict of interest for medical researchers?

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Schultz É, Mancini J, Ward JK. What does the French public consider to be a conflict of interest for medical researchers? Soc Sci Med. 2023 Jun;327:115851. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115851. Conflicts of interests have been at the core of public debate over health and medicine for decades. Social scientists have analysed the diversity of definitions of this…

Publication : From intentions to practices: what drove people to get the COVID-19 vaccine? Findings from the French longitudinal socioepidemiological cohort survey

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Spire A, Sireyjol A, Bajos N; EpiCoV study group; EpiCov study group. From intentions to practices: what drove people to get the COVID-19 vaccine? Findings from the French longitudinal socioepidemiological cohort survey. BMJ Open. 2023 Dec 22;13(12):e073465. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073465. Objective: In many countries, before COVID-19 vaccines became available, reluctance to get vaccinated was particularly prevalent among…

Publication : Il y a des alternatives. Une autre histoire des médicaments (XIXe-XXIe siècle)

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Cassier M., Il y a des alternatives: Une autre histoire des médicaments (XIXe-XXIe siècle), Seuil, Paris, 384 p, 2023. À partir de 2020, des entreprises pharmaceutiques ont rendu opérationnelles, en un temps record, de nouvelles technologies vaccinales qui ont contribué à surmonter la crise du Covid-19. Toutefois, ces multinationales, qui avaient breveté leurs vaccins, les…

Publication : Politisation et rapports ordinaires aux vaccins. Premiers enseignements de l’épidémie de Covid-19

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Ward, Jeremy K. « Politisation et rapports ordinaires aux vaccins. Premiers enseignements de l’épidémie de Covid-19 », L’Année sociologique, vol. 73, no. 2, 2023, pp. 267-294. https://doi.org/10.3917/anso.232.0267 L’influence des identités et croyances politiques sur les attitudes à l’égard d’une grande diversité d’aspects de l’épidémie de Covid-19 a été soulignée dès les débuts de cette crise. Dans cet article,…

Conference : Panel : Beyond polarisation : approaches to vaccination; European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in Amsterdam

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Convenors: Lesley Branagan (Hamburg University), Anna Dowrick (University of Oxford), Rebecca Cassidy (University of Kent), Simon Bailey (University of Kent). https://www.easst4s2024.net/open-panels/#14363 The Covid pandemic brought significant transformations in the technologies, roles, governance, discourses and meanings of vaccines. The technological and political promise of Covid vaccines has left limited space for exploration of their unintended consequences….