Collignon René
Ethnology
Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (LESC)
France
Biography
René Collignon dedicates his research to various aspects of health and medicine in Senegal and West Africa, attempting to link anthropological and historical approaches according to the perspectives of the currents of the history of social sciences and colonial sciences. It specifically focuses on the workings of collective memory during periods of crisis caused by epidemics, and on the reactions of populations to sanitary measures imposed upon them by those in power – first colonial powers, then the independent state – as these powers respond to the consequences of these sanitary perils. His project on the question of sexually transmitted diseases is particularly interesting in this regard. It examines not only the prejudices that have surrounded these ailments, but also their extension in the context of the AIDS epidemic.
Research Interest
Anthropology of health and illness, comparative psychiatry, psychiatry and justice, law and health
Publications
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2007-2008, Y aurait-il une “difficulté spécifiquement française d’intégrer totalement dans ses réflexions, ses recherches le passé colonial et ses conséquences� À propos de publications récentes sur l’histoire de la psychiatrie française en Algérie, Psychopathologie africaine, 34 (3): 373–394.
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2009-2010, Quel intérêt y aurait-il à se pencher sur l’histoire d’un obscur aliéniste lyonnais du XIXe siècle? À propos de l’ouvrage de: Frédéric Scheider, Arthaud de Lyon, aliéniste missionnaire, Psychopathologie africaine, 35 (3): 383–392.
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2012, L’apport de l’expérience de collaboration Psychanalyse/Anthropologie à l’hôpital de Fann-Dakar (Sénégal), in S. Dreyfus-Asséo, G. Tarabout, D. Cupa and G. Chaudoy (eds), Les ancêtres (Paris, EDK éditions): 113–124 [Pluriel de la psyché].
