IEA

Fellowship from october 2010 to June 2011 

Research Project: Drugs, health care practices, social ties. The issue of medicality in Central Africa

Impasses in certain medical practice led to consider the linkages between the logic of knowledge and skills involved in the care of patients and an existential approach within the epistemological medicality, a concept that refers to the holistic dimension of care in respect of a person, unique, considered in its entirety and in its humanity. Because of the conditions in Africa, medicality allows to reflect on the ethics of health attendants while taking into account the terms of the disastrous practice of medicine in a context of widespread social decay. It is also fed by the debate on African traditional medicine, which at every level of its practice never isolated the therapeutic act from its social representations. So it aims a medicine of proximity - geographical and social - but patient-centered open to society and likely to re-establish, in a climate of trust between those who care and those who are cared for, a greater accessibility to drugs and quality health care.

Biographical elements:

Social anthropologist, Patrice Yengo first taught at the Higher Institute of Health Sciences, and Faculty of Medicine at the University of Brazzaville Ngouabi. Researcher at the Centre of African Studies at the EHESS in Paris, he edits the journal "Break-Solidarity " and he is interested in anthropology, history and politics, particularly political dynamics and social conditions created by globalization. Among his main publications:

Patrice Yengo (eds), "IDENTITIES AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE, Paris, L’Harmattan, 1997.

"THE CIVIL WAR OF CONGO - BRAZZAVILLE 1993-2002-EACH WILL HAVE HIS SHARE", Paris, Karthala, Collection: Man and Society ", 2006, 448 p.

"THE VENOM IN THE INKWELL: CONFLICT OF CONGO IN THE MIRROR OF WRITING, PARIS, EDITIONS Paar, 2009, 176 p.