Université Paris Diderot

Post-Doc, Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences

Other Affiliations: MDM, Mission France

Thesis Title: Races et dégénérescence. L'émergence des savoirs sur l'homme anormal

About

My researches focus on two main fields.

1. Race and abnormals. I wrote my PhD thesis on the history of the concepts of "race" and "degeneration" (see its abstracts and detailed presentation in "papers"). I'm more broadly interested in the history of "racism", the link between race and liberalism during the early nineteenth century and the history of the emergence of the concept of "race" in natural history during the XVIIIth century. I'm also studying the birth of a psychiatry on the "abnormals" from the 1830s, the concepts of "perversion" and "moral insanity" and the theory of dégénérescence.

2. Gouvernment of dangerousness between psychiatry and penal system; and more broadly, risk management and precautionary principle.
A lot of my researches and papers dealt with the transformation of French penal system through the question of dangerousness and that of sexual offenders from the 1990s. I focused especially on the link between psychiatric "care" and legal apparatus. It led me to study more broadly the problem of risk management and the rationality of "precaution" in many other fields.

- More recently, because I'm working on this question for Médecins du monde, I'm also studying the problem of "jail diversion" for homeless people with psychiatric disorders

- I'm also the editorial secretary of the Cahiers du Centre Georges Canguilhem, where we publish studies concerning philosophy or anthropology of medecine, medical ethics and more broadly philosophy of sciences. See the website: http://centrecanguilhem.net/

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