Ducournau P. & Beaudevin C. (forthcoming, 2011) – « Génétique en ligne : déterritorialisation des régulations de santé publique et formes de développement commercial », Anthropologie & Santé, n°3.
Beaudevin
C. (forthcoming, 2012) – « Everything is kullû zayn !"
L'échographie obstétricale dans le système de santé
omanais » - in MOULIN, A.-M. (ed.), Le Labyrinthe du corps. Islam
et médecine moderne, Paris, Karthala.
[Everything
is kullû zayn ! Obstetrical ultrasound within the Omani health care
system]
Medical
Anthropology Master's thesis, Paul Cézanne University, Aix-Marseille,
June 2004
"Everything is kullû zayn ! -- Obstetrical ultrasonography
in the Sultanate of Oman. Practices, uses, representations" [in
French]
Summary - This study deals with the everyday practice of obstetrical ultrasound in for healthcare institutions (public and private) of the capital area. It represents a first approach of this technology within an Arab and Muslim country. Dissertations begins with a description of the socioal , historical and political context of Oman. Then, it leads to the study of socio-cultural integration of modern ultrasound technology within the Omani healthcare system. This aims at assessing uses and representations of ultrasound in Oman, to be compared with situation in Western countries.
4th
year of Ethnology studies, research thesis (after fieldwork), Lumière
Lyon 2 University, August 2002
"From the murrabiya visits to wednesday market. Women souqs in Oman
: commercial separatism of strengthening of a "gender culture" ?"
Summary - This study deals with women souqs withtin the Omani Sharqiyya omanaise. There are 3 women souqs in the Omani Sharqiyya. They are quite recent weekly markets (80's and 90's), reserved to women, as sellers and customers. The proposed products concern houseware, children or women clothes. This article aims at giving a first approach of these markets (rare in the Arab world), and providing information about the geographical, political and social context of Oman. This study allows a global glimpse on the women situation within the patriarcal society and the Omani economy, specially when comparing the usual souqs, almost exclusively reserved to men, in Oman as elsewhere.
Summary - Anthropologists sometimes play the role of an interface between medicine and the social sciences. In these situations, they are confronted with formal and protocol-related requirements that can appear distant from their discipline or even completely unsuitable. The present contribution is based on the example of medical anthropology doctoral research focusing on inherited blood disorders in the Sultanate of Oman (Arabian Peninsula). By discussing this example, the aim of this article is to point to some consequences of public health international frameworks (ethical and practical) and clinical medical research on medical anthropological practice.
Book's presentation -
under construction - French version available here
Summary - There were three main women souqs in the Omani Sharqiyya in 2002. They are quite recent weekly markets (80's and 90's), reserved to women, as sellers and customers. The proposed products concern houseware, children or women clothes. This article aims at giving a first approach of these markets (rare in the Arab world), and providing information about the geographical, political and social context of Oman. This study allows a global glimpse on the women situation within the patriarcal society and the Omani economy, specially when comparing the usual souqs, almost exclusively reserved to men, in Oman as elsewhere.
Faqr
al-dam, "l'indigence du sang", comme héritage. Représentations
et enjeux sociaux des hémoglobinopathies héréditaires
au sultanat d’Oman, thèse de doctorat en Anthropologie
Defended on January,
22nd 2010 ; "mention très honorable avec les félicitations
du jury" (= summa cum laude)
Supervisors : DESCLAUX Alice, Paul Cézanne University &
MOULIN Anne Marie, CNRS / Paris VII University; in Oman: Dr Sultan M. Al-Hashmi,
Sultan Qaboos University
Committee : Doris Bonnet (IRD, France), Dale F. Eickelman (Dartmouth
College, USA), Anita Hardon (Amsterdam University, The Netherlands), Bertrand
Jordan (CNRS, France), Franck Mermier (CNRS, France)
Summary :
This thesis
is a contribution to three different anthropological fields of analysis: social
treatment of inherited disorders on one hand; social uses of genetic knowledge
on the other hand; and finally the study of healthcare systems in the Arab
world. Based on an eighteen-month ethnographic fieldwork in Oman (Arabian
Peninsula), this PhD deals with two inherited blood disorders: sickle cell
anemia and beta-thalassemia — named faqr al-dam, “indigence
of the blood” in the country. The thesis broaches the description of
the apparent disjunction between advanced technologies one can expect to find
in an oil-producing country and the daily throes of patients and families
experiences.
The aim of this PhD is to study at various social scales (experience of illness
as well as public health policy) recent medical innovations (genetics) in
the Gulf, whereas this area is usually more examined for its political and
religious upheavals. This work observes the contemporary Omani society through
these inherited blood disorders which put to the test the country's political
institutions. As anthropological objects, these two hemoglobinopathies allow
to examine the political construction of social order as well as to begin
to disentangle the links between institutions, identities and history.
Keywords
: social anthropology, health, medical anthropology, genetics, new
genetics, blood disorders, biopolitics, identities, sickle-cell anemia, thalassemia,
Middle East, Gulf, Sultanate of Oman
