Renewed approach to epidemics by combining different types of archives

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While it will rely on the skills of experienced researchers in population genetics, biological anthropology and the history of epidemics, this axis also intends to open up to the skills of the "Bodies, norms, health" team in health law, ethics and odontology. Knowledge will gain in comprehensiveness through an exploration of the epidemic body in its multiple facets.


Like the other axes, the research issues of axis no. 4 will focus on health, and more specifically on health crises in their diachronic and synchronous dimensions. Through the combined study of historical and biological archives of epidemic contexts, this axis will propose an integrative approach at the scale of populations, their health states and environment/health interactions.
Since the origin of ADES (and even within the framework of the UMR that preceded it), the research problems developed by the members of this axis have largely explored the contexts of funerary management of the victims of high pathogen epidemics or victims following periods of conflict. Although this research is strongly rooted in the history of the laboratory, putting it into perspective with the contemporary epidemic context and crossing it with other types of archives will allow us to revisit certain aspects through other eyes and from other angles.


On a methodological level, the bio-cultural anthropology developed in this axis will be practiced in the laboratory but also in the field. The sites favored by the researchers will remain those that are emblematic of moments of epidemic activity (e.g., multiple burials during plague epidemics). It will also be a question of studying the sanitary state of populations with specific recruitment (for example, populations of soldiers). The work concerning these populations will be extended in the next contract by projects benefiting from institutional recognition and support (Collective Research Project of the Ministry of Culture, ANR...) without forgetting funding for young researchers (doctoral contracts for the Region, ED, CIFRE...). This research will take shape through the realization of several university theses, some of which were started at the end of the past year.

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Total amount

392,000 euros