This article was published on March 27th, 2023 in the journal Alternatives Humanitaires, in an edition focused on mental health.

“Death is an extremely grave non-emergency; its only treatment is mourning”. That is how doctor Miguel Martinez Almoyna introduces his concept of emergency. The retired 92-year-old anaesthesiologist played an active role in creating France’s SMUR, and later SAMU, emergency medical systems. Still quite active overseas (in Brazil and Mexico), where he has exported the French pre-hospital model, he explains his approach to régulation médicale, whose purpose is to guide patients to the medical services their condition requires while offering a range of responses corresponding to different degrees of severity and urgency.

Rony Brauman était l'invité du matin de RFI à l'occasion du 50e anniversaire de Médecins sans frontières. Il répondait aux questions de Julien Coquelle-Roëhm.

Fiche de lecture du livre La colonisation du savoir. Une histoire des plantes médicinales du « Nouveau Monde » (1492-1750), Vaulx-en-Velin, Éditions des Mondes à faire, 2016, de Samir Boumediene historien, chercheur CNRS à l’ens-lyon.

An article entitled "Médecines du corps noir" [Medicine and the black body], published on the La vie des idées website on 27 April, discusses three American history books on the origins of medicine in the United States in the context of slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries. Between experimentation and resistance, the history of relationships between race and health illustrates the decisive role played by African slaves.    

Le 7 février 2015, nous avons eu le plaisir de recevoir Guillaume Lachenal, historien de la médecine, pour une conférence-débat intitulée "Le médicament qui devait sauver l'Afrique". Cette rencontre a été préparée et animée par Michaël Neuman.