Resume - Cermes3

Claire Beaudevin
Social Anthropologist (Ph.D.)
Research scientist, CNRS
Research unit: Cermes3 (Research Centre on Medicine, Sciences, Health, Mental Health & Society CNRS UMR 8211 / Inserm U988 / EHESS / Paris Descartes University, Paris/Villejuif, France
Corresponding researcher, CEFAS (French Social Sciences Research Centre, CNRS), Yemen/Koweit
[email protected]
www.cermes3.cnrs.fr/en/members/beaudevin
http://globhealth.vjf.cnrs.fr
Cermes3, campus CNRS
7 rue Guy Môquet
94801 Villejuif Cedex — France
 Fields of competency (research & teaching): medical anthropology, general social anthropology (and methods), Middle-Eastern studies
 Research interests: genetics/genomics, reproductive health, public health, kinship; biomedical technologies, Middle-East, Europe, (bio)ethics
 Current research: - public health, clinical genetics and genetic/genomic research in Arabia (Oman, UAE) within the frame of the GLOBHEALTH ERC project (dir.: JP
Gaudillière, Inserm/Cermes3) ; in charge of the segment ‘Medical genetics in the global South’
- ethnography of oncogenomics platforms in France (project ‘High throughput genomics and personalised medicine’, led by C. Bourgain Inserm/
Cermes3; funding: Ifris)
Academic positions
2013-…
2011-2013
2010-2011
2010-2011
2007-2008
Appointed as CNRS permanent research scientist at the Cermes3 (national competition)
IFRIS Post-doctoral fellow at the Cermes3, on ‘New Genetics in Arabia’
Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University Paris Descartes Paris V, Sorbonne College of Social Sciences
Inserm Post-doctoral fellow in the TeGALSI project (‘Direct to consumer genetic testing: motives, developments and consequences’), led by P.
Ducournau, Inserm Toulouse, France and funded by IReSP). Netnography of the uses of DTCGT (UK, USA, France
Assistant Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University Denis Diderot Paris VII
Education
2010
2002-2004
2001-2002
2000-2001
PhD in Social Anthropology, Paul Cézanne University, Research Group Cultures, Health, Societies (GReCSS)
« Mention très honorable avec les félicitations du jury » (= summa cum laude), defended on January 22nd 2010
Thesis: ‘Faqr al-dam, ‘indigence of the blood’, as inheritance. Social representations of inherited blood disorders in Oman’
Supervisors: Prof. A. Desclaux (Paul Cézanne University / IRD) and Prof. AM Moulin (CNRS / Paris VII University)
MA in Social Anthropology (major: medical anthropology), Paul Cézanne University — « Obstetrical ultrasound in the Sultanate of Oman »
Supervisors : Pr A. Desclaux / Prof. AM Moulin
Master 1 (M.A.) in Ethnology, Lumière Lyon 2 University — Thesis: « Women markets in Oman » / Supervisor : Dr F. Mermier (CNRS, Lyon)
B.A. in Ethnology, Lumière Lyon 2 University
DEUG Socio/anthropology (2-year preliminary foundation degree), Lumière Lyon 2 University
Publications
Edited special
issue
- 2016. Beaudevin, C. and L. Pordié. "Introduction: Diversion and Globalization in Biomedical Technologies." Medical Anthropology 35 (1). doi:
10.1080/01459740.2015.1090436.
- 2013. Old diseases & contemporary crisis. Inherited blood disorders in Oman. Anthropology & Medicine, 20(2): 175-189.
- 2011. with P. Ducournau, Of deterritorialization, healthism and biosocialities Journal of Science Communication, 10(3).
- 2011. with P. Ducournau, Génétique en ligne : déterritorialisation des régulations bioéthiques et stratégies de développement commercial, Anthropologie & Santé, n°3.
- 2008. “Inaugurer” l’anthropologie de la santé au Sultanat d’Oman. L’anthropologue face à la lecture locale de l’éthique de la recherche. special
issue on Ethics, Ethnographiques [“Inaugurating“ Medical Anthropology in Oman. The Anthropologist facing local meaning of research ethics]
- 2005. Des visites de murabiyya au marché du mercredi. Les Souks féminins au Sultanat d’Oman : séparatisme commercial ou renforcement d’une
culture de genre ?. Chroniques Yéménites, 12: 140-173 [From the murabiyya visits to Wednesday market. Women markets in Oman]
- Viossat P., Beaudevin C., Dumitru-Daubigny L., Pons J.-C., 2001. Pour ou contre les Maisons de Naissance : enquête auprès des praticiens de
l’Isère, Journal de Gynécologie Obstétrique et Biologie de la Reproduction, 30(7 pt1): 688-96. [For or against birthing centers: a survey of practitioners views in the Isere area]
- 2016. Beaudevin C. et L. Pordié. "Special issue: Diversion of Biomedical Technologies in a Globalized World." Medical Anthropology 35 (1).
Book
sections
- 2015. Cousin marriages and inherited blood disorders in the Sultanate of Oman. in A. Shaw & Raz A. (eds.), Cousin marriage: between tradition,
genetic risk and cultural change. London and New York, Berghahn.
- 2013. Of red cells, translocality and origins: inherited blood disorders in Oman. in S. Wippel (Ed.), Regionalizing Oman: Political, Economic and
Social Dynamics, Springer Science, 91-105.
- 2013. “Everything is kullû zayn !” L'échographie obstétricale dans le système de santé omanais. in A.M. Moulin (ed.), Islam et revolutions médicales. Le Labyrinthe du corps, Paris, Karthala, 361-389. [“Everything is kullû zayn ! Obstetrical ultrasound in the Omani health care system]
- 2010. Une médecine "sans passé" : l'exemple de l'échographie obstétricale au Sultanat d'Oman. in A.M Moulin A.M. & Ulman Y. (dir), Paris, Drafting modernity. Medicine in the Ottoman Empire and Near East from the 19th century onwards, Istanbul, Isis Press. [A Medicine “disconnected from
the past“ : example of obstetrical ultrasound in the Sultanate of Oman]
Peer-reviewed
conference
proceedings
- 2007. Quid des hématies des descendants de Sindbad ? in O. Leservoisier & Vidal L. (eds), L’Anthropologie face à ses objets. Nouveaux contextes
ethnographiques. Paris : editions des Archives contemporaines, pp.123-134. [Quid of Sindbad’s descendants’ red corpuscles ?]
- 2007. Hémoglobinopathies héréditaires au Sultanat d’Oman. in C. d'Ercole & Collet M. (dir), 37èmes Journées Nationales de Médecine Périnatale,
Arnette, pp. 251-264. [Inherited hemoglobinopathies in the Sultanate of Oman. First results of an medical anthropological doctoral research]
Reviews
- 2011. "Casper & Moore, Missing Bodies. The Politics of Visibility", Social Anthropology, 19(2).
- 2009. Raz, The Gene and the Genie: Tradition, Medicalization and Genetic Counselling in a Bedouin Community in Israel.» L’Homme, n°190, pp.
234-236. [http://lhomme.revues.org/index21296.html].
CV Claire Beaudevin—1/4
Articles in peereviewed
journals
Teaching (2007-present)
2014-…
2015-2016
2014-2015
2013 - 2014
2012 – 2013
June 2012
2011 – 2015
February 2011
January 2011
2010-2011
May 2010
May 2010
May 2008
2007-2008
PhD thesis co-supervision (EHESS Paris): Mandy Geise ‘Global Medicine and Local Public Health: international organizations and development of medical genetics in Mexico’ Co-supervisor : JP Gaudillière (Cermes3) ; funding: ERC project Globhealth
EHESS, Paris, Seminar series ‘Global Health: Knowledges, Dispositifs, Poli-cies/-tics’, co-organization with JP Gaudillière, F. Chabrol, L.
Pordié, VK Nguyen, F. Keck, G. Lachenal, E. Sanabria
Monthly 3-hour session; MA and PhD students. Program: http://www.ehess.fr/fr/enseignement/enseignements/2015/ue/969/
EHESS, Paris, Seminar series ‘Global Health: anticipations, infrastructures, knowledges’, co-organization with JP Gaudillière, L. Pordié,
VK Nguyen, F. Keck, G. Lachenal, E. Sanabria, C. Lefève
Monthly 3-hour session; MA and PhD students. Program: http://www.ehess.fr/fr/enseignement/enseignements/2014/ue/714/
EHESS, Paris, Seminar series « Innovative elsewheres », together with Laurent Pordié
Monthly 3-hour session; MA and PhD students. Program: http://www.ehess.fr/fr/enseignement/enseignements/2013/ue/985/
EHESS, Paris, Seminar series « Globalization and biomedical technologies », together with Laurent Pordié
Monthly 3-hour session; MA and PhD students
University of Basel, Switzerland, Institute for Biomedical Ethics — Qualitative Methods Seminar
4h, presented to PhD students (major: Bioethics)
Cermes3 (CNRS / Inserm / EHESS / Paris Descartes University), in charge of the doctoral seminar series, together with Myriam Winance
Monthly 4-hour session; PhD candidates (majors: Sociology, history of science, economy, geography)
University Paris Descartes, Sorbonne College of Social Sciences — Ethnology Seminar, cycle « Dynamics of North-African societies »
2h, presented to graduate students (major: Anthropology)
University Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France - Medical Anthropology Lecture
2h, presented to graduate students and PhD candidates (major: Anthropology)
University Paris Descartes, Sorbonne College of Social Sciences - Tutorial classes
Anthropology | 2 x 36h presented to undergraduate Sociology students | Methods | 24h presented to undergraduate Sociology students
Oman Medical College, Sohar, Sultanate of Oman. Lecture: « Medical Anthropology: an Introduction »
2h, presented to medical students and academic staff
Sultan Qaboos University, College of Medicine, Oman. Lectures: « Medical Anthropology » and « Anthropology & Mental Health »
4h, presented to medical students, psychiatrists of the University Hospital and academic staff
Omani Studies Centre, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat - Workshop : « Field methods in Anthropology. Examples from Oman »
8h presented to undergraduate students as a guest lecturer.
University Paris Diderot, College of Social Sciences - Set of lectures given on General Ethnology and Contemporary Ethnology
2 x 36h presented to 70 undergraduate Sociology students.
Papers
Invited papers
Oct 2011
March 2010
Dec 2005
Dec 2004
Fertility and Reproductive Studies Group Seminar Series, University of Oxford, UK
« Composite Proximity, Genetic Burden & Social Value. Cousin Marriages and Inherited Blood Disorders in Oman. »
International Workshop “Regionalizing Oman - Political, Economic and Social Dynamics”, University of Leipzig, Germany
« The blood of “Sinbad’s descendants”: political and social stakes of inherited blood disorders in Oman, revealing transnational dynamics »
International Colloquium « Writing locally History of Sciences », CEDEJ, Cairo, Egypt
« Anthropology of Health in Oman : “free fieldwork, but…“ About the introduction of genetics in Oman » [in French + English]
International Colloquium « Modernity and modernization of medicine in the Near-East » - French Institute for Anatolian Studies, Istanbul, Turkey
« A medicine without past ? » [in French]
International conferences (since 2007)
Jan 2013
March 2012
Oct 2011
Sept 2011
Sept 2011
August 2010
July 2010
July 2010
Oct 2008
Jan 2007
Joint International Conference EASA Medical Anthropology Network & AAA Society for Medical Anthropology, Tarragona, Spain
« Haemoglobins in Arabia: ‘microscopic ethnography’ »
Symposium « Beyond Biosocialities in Medical Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
« ‘Ways of acting citizenship’: biosocialities and beyond in the global Souths » (with Mary-Ashley Ouvrier)
International IFRIS Post-doctoral & Doctoral Seminar, « Bio-knowledge, bio-power and bio-economy », Florence, Italy
« New Genetics in Arabia: Public Health, Genomics & Genetic Medicine (Oman, United Arab Emirates) »
International Symposium "Genetics as Culture in a Consumerist Age", Innsbruck, Austria
« Confiscating Biopolitics in a Paradoxical Way? An Anthropological Study of DTCGT Users’ Motives and Perceptions »
French Anthropology and Ethnology Association Congress, EHESS, Paris
« Normalité, identité, virtualité. Apports thématiques et méthodologiques de l’étude de la génomique personnalisée sur Internet »
EASA Medical Anthropology Conference « Medical Pluralism: Techniques, Politics, Institutions », Rome, Italy
« Of Red Cells, “New” Diseases and “Autonomy”: Inherited Blood Disorders in the Sultanate of Oman »
Biennal conference of European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Maynooth, Ireland
« Individual and national crises: management of inherited blood disorders in Oman, as a source of new technologies and categories. »
WOCMES-3 (3rd World Congress for Middle-Eastern Studies), Barcelona, Spain
« When biomedicine and a disease “appear” simultaneously: inherited blood disorders in Oman and creation of the healthcare system »
2010 Exeter Gulf Studies Conference, University of Exeter, Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, UK
« How Do Genetic Knowledge and Biotechnologies Interact with Social and Political Institutions? Example of Inherited Blood Disorders in Oman. »
Workshop « Teaching anthropology today », Oxford University, Keble College
« Teaching « anthropology at home » abroad…and at home. Crossed experiences from France and the Sultanate of Oman. »
International congress « Anthropology face to face with its objects », Marseille, France, Provence University/IRD
« Quid of Sindbad’s descendants’ red corpuscles ? » [in French]
Posters in international conferences
March 2011
Human Genome Meeting, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Beaudevin C. and Ducournau P., “Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: Users’ Perceptions”.
Digital poster available at: http://tegalsi.hypotheses.org/publications-tegalsi
CV Claire Beaudevin—2/4
June 2013
Seminars (since 2010)
May 2014 Freie Universität Berlin, Working group « Medical Anthropology » (dir. Hansjörg Dilger)
with Jean-Paul Gaudillière : « From international to global? Circulating biomedical and traditional medical knowledge »
Feb 2013 Seminar series « Micro/macro. Les changements d’échelle dans les pratiques de savoir », CNRS/EHESS, Paris (dir. Sophie Houdart (LESC)
and Christine Jungen (LAU/IIAC)
« Hémoglobine(s) en Arabie » [Hemoglobin(s) in Arabia]
June 2011 International workshop: "Direct To Consumer Genetic Testing: motives, developments and consequences", Inserm U558, Toulouse
With P. Ducournau — « Génétique en ligne, une biopolitique en mutation ? »
Feb 2011 Research seminar « Mondialization of health and pharmaceuticals in the XXth century », EHESS, Paris (dir. Maurice Cassier & Jean-Paul Gaudillière)
« Anthropology of the social management of thalassaemia in Oman »
Feb 2011 Research Seminar of the Centre Norbert Elias, « Sciences, natures, societies », Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
« Anthropology of medical genetics in the Arabian Peninsula »
Nov 2010 Research Seminar "Regulations, norms and knowledge in the fields of health and mental health" Cermes3 (UMR CNRS 8211), Villejuif,
France. Session "Biomedicine, innovation and mondialization: genetic and « neglected » disorders in the South"
"Inherited haemoglobinopathies in the Sultanate of Oman" [in French]
June 2010 International workshop: "Direct To Consumer Genetic Testing: motives, developments", Inserm U558, Toulouse
"Netnographying the Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests Uses"
June 2010 Research seminar, ANR Project "Prenatal Diagnosis & Prevention of Handicaps", Cermes (CNRS UMR 8211), Villejuif-Paris
"Prenatal Diagnosis & Genetics in the Gulf."
Diffusion of anthropology outside academia, results dissemination in the field
Oct 2012 1st forum on sickle-cell disease « Individus et sociétés face à la maladie », Association URACA, Hôpital Tenon, Paris
« Enjeux politiques et sociaux de la drépanocytose au sultanat d’Oman »
April 2011 Hereditary Blood Disorders Association, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman (http://www.omancares.org)
Audience: patients, families and health professionals
“Everyday life & Inherited Blood Disorders in the Omani Society”
May 2010 Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Hematology Dpt, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
« Inherited Blood Disorders in the Omani Society: an Anthropological Approach » [in English]
April 2010 Oman Hereditary Blood Disorders Association, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
« Inherited Blood Disorders in the Omani Society: Results of an Anthropological Research with Patients and Doctors » [in English]
June 2008 FamGUARD project workshop (Family Genetic Understanding of Autosomal Recessive Diseases in Oman), Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Coll. of Medicine, Dpt of Genetics
Dec 2005 Conference at French Center for Archaeology and Social Sciences, Sana’a, Yemen
« Anthropology of health in Oman : around birth and inherited blood disorders » [in English + Arabic]
Grants (doctoral research)
2009
2007
2004-2007
June 2005
Research grant from the French Social Sciences Research Centre, Sana’a, Yemen / French Embassy in Oman
Research grant from the French Social Sciences Research Centre, Sana’a, Yemen / French Embassy in Oman
PhD scholarship (3 years) from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research — Paul Cézanne University
« Cultural Areas » Scholarship granted by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research
Scientific scholarship granted by the French Society for Perinatal Medicine (SFMP)
Other research-related activities
Feb 2015 International inaugural conference of the Globhealth ERC project, Bierville, France (http://globhealth.vjf.cnrs.fr/index.php/events)
Member of the organization committee (together with JP Gaudillière, A. Lovell, C. Gradmann, L. Pordié, B. Pons)
July 2013 Freie Universität Berlin, Germany — International Medical Anthropology Summer School. Member of the organization team, together with Hansjörg Dilger, Anita Hardon, Susann Huschke, Dominik Mattes, Katerina Ferkov and Ursula Probst [http://medant-berlin13.sciencesconf.org]
July 2012 Biennal conference of EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists), Nanterre, France. Organizing and co-chairing the panel
"Signifying blood: illness, technologies, and interpretations" with Susanne Ådahl (University of Helsinki)
July 2012 University Paris-Ouest (Nanterre), organization (with Susann Huschke & Stéphanie Larchanché) of the 3rd MAYS meeting Medical Anthropology
Young Scholars, network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists)
June 2011 University of Warsaw (Poland), organization (with Susann Huschke) of the 2 nd MAYS meeting (Medical Anthropology Young Scholars, network of
the European Association of Social Anthropologists) [http://mays-poland-2011.blogspot.com/]
July 2010 3rd World Congress for Middle-Eastern Studies, Barcelona, Spain, organization of a workshop (together with Anne Marie Moulin) : Health, Medicine and Social sciences in the Middle East: state of the art and perspectives
July 2010 Oxford University, organization (together with Susann Huschke, Berlin Free University and the Oxford University Anthropological Society) of a Medical Anthropology Workshop (« Shaping our discipline »), within the frame of the yearly Royal Anthropological Institute’s Medical Anthropology conference.
Feb 2010 Freie Universität Berlin, organization (with Susann Huschke) of the 1st European Medical Anthropology Student Workshop.
Aug 2008 Direction of panel « Medical anthropological fieldwork: ethical and methodological issues », Biennal conference of European Association of
Social Anthropologists, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Feb 2008 Organization (with AMADES association) of a conference on « Social uses of Down Syndrome screening », partnership with Pluridisciplinary
Committee for Prenatal Diagnosis, Grenoble University Hospital. Speaker : Carine Vassy (CRESP, Paris 13 / INSERM)
2007 Member of Organization Board, International Colloquium « Anthropology and Medicine : mergings and confrontations in the fields of training, care and prevention », Marseille, France, AMADES Association, October 2007.
CV Claire Beaudevin—3/4
Conference and panel organization
Editorial activities
2014-…
2014-…
2012-…
2011-…
2010-…
2010-…
2010-…
2008-2012
Reviewer for Anthropologie et Sociétés (http://www.anthropologie-societes.ant.ulaval.ca/)
Reviewer for Medical Anthropology (http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/gmea20)
Reviewer for New Genetics & Society (http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cngs20)
Reviewer for Global Health Promotion (http://ped.sagepub.com)
Reviewer for Social Science & Medicine (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/socscimed)
Founding member of editorial committee, Anthropologie & Santé (http://anthropologiesante.revues.org)
Reviewer for Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal (http://www.squ.edu.om/squmj)
Co-responsible of the online edition, Bulletin Amades (with Cyril Farnarier) CNRS portal revues.org (http://amades.revues.org)
Administrative activities (2011-present)
2014-…
2011-…
2011-2012
Elected member in the Cermes3 unit council (together with Catherine Bourgain)
Co-responsible (with Myriam Winance) of the Cermes3 monthly doctoral seminar
Creation and updating of the TeGALSI project website, CNRS portal hypotheses.org (http://tegalsi.hypotheses.org)
Learned societies / professional associations
2009-2012
2006-2014
‘Liaison Officer’ in the Medical Anthropology Network of EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists)
Member of the administrative council of the Association Française d’Ethnologie et d’Anthropologie (AFEA)
Elected co-representative of students / young researchers within the Medical Anthropology Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists with Susann Huschke (Free University Berlin)
Co-creator with Susann Huschke (Free University Berlin) of MAYS, Medical Anthropology Young Scholars Network (http://www.mays-easa.org).
Member of the administrative committee, AMADES association (Anthropologie Médicale Appliquée au Développement et à la Santé, http://
amades.hypotheses.org)
Member of : European Association of Social Anthropologists [EASA - http://www.easaonline.org]
French Anthropologists Association [AFA - http://www.afa.msh-paris.fr]
American Anthropological Association [AAA - http://www.aaanet.org] (& Society for Medical Anthropology)
CV Claire Beaudevin—4/4
2014-…
2012-2014
2008-2012