Contenu du sommaire : Génération(s) santé

The focus of the contribution is to study the conception of diseases and the representations of the sick when young people are concerned within a popular series Les Bracelets rouges. On the diegetic, thematic and narrative levels, the originality of the series lies in the interlacing of two fictional generic traditions, the medical series and the adolescent series allowing to characterize in a more complex way the characters of the sick people. As a result, they may differ, among other things, from the traditional figure of the patient. The stories of the sick do not relate exclusively to stories of illness. In a subtle way, the series shows how illness and adolescence are both times of crisis during which problems centering on identity and otherness crop up and get solved. Thus presented, adolescence does not constitute a simple temporal framework for the adventures of the characters, but allows to develop a conception of the disease and the sick that departs from the poncifs of the medical television fiction.

The present paper deals with interferences and reconfiguration at work between generations due to digital devices dedicated to discussion about one particular type of brain cancer: Glioblastoma. Glioblastoma is a rare brain cancer more than often diagnosed at a late stage, with a very poor prognosis and huge and disabling neurological impairments at the time of identification of the disease. Thereby, when a web patient chat room happens to deal with glioblastoma, the discussion happens most of the time between close relatives. This paper analyzes these digital testimonies to explore how they enable, build, and give access to a “parent expertise” instead of patient expertise, and this through intergenerational solidarity. This specific corpus of web discurses is analyzed, which a semio-communicational analysis. The analysis first shows how the architexts of the forums promote the emergence of a figure of intergenerational, then focuses on the variations of the two major types of exchanges carried out, between generations, within these digital frameworks: a relationship to illness experienced as extraordinary upheaval, and to the accompaniment of the disease in the very ordinary of everyday life.

This paper takes a historical stand on the use of child figures in prohibitionist anti-liquor campaigns. It explores how children are involved in a mediation process on an issue that is not one of theirs, since the true targets of the campaign are the parents or the adults in general. This instrumentalization of children leads us to question their very statute and to explore the motives behind their common presence in health-related messages.

This paper examines Chinese Americans' intergenerational sharing of important family soup recipes in audio/video-recorded cooking sessions. Three main themes emerged: 1) Construction of hygiene around Chinese meal preparation; 2) questioning the authenticity and Chineseness of particular food practices; and 3) claiming cultural capital as part of a marginalized identity group in the U.S. through intergenerational food knowledge. Taken together, these themes demonstrate how Chinese Americans wrestle with a long history of discrimination while simultaneously pushing back against assimiliationist tendencies through preserving positive cultural affinity and carving out spaces for newer generations.

Disability, as normative category, is a discursive, medical, social and political construct. Therefore, it reveals major stakes in the way we apprehend alterity, even more so in socio-technical controversies contexts, which put the human body at its centre. This article explores how the Do It Yourself (DIY) movement, practised in disability-specialized FabLabs, can create empowerment circumstances for people considered as disabled. As third-places which develops lay-expertise and experience-based knowledge, they present themselves as an alternative to common medical and administrative ways to obtain technical assistance items. This article will first study the links between body, communication and disability. Then, it will focus on the reasons that encourage people to get involved in self-fabrication and how these Fablabs can enable forms of empowerment. Finally, it will put these DIY-initiatives in perspective with human/technology relations.

This article studies, based on observations and interviews, the development of three e-health tools within a RéPPOP (childhood obesity prevention and care network), designed to promote the educational management of paediatric obesity. It emerges that the weak hybridisation of (inter)professional and lay expertise influences the conceptions of future users registered in the tools. The latter become the spokespersons for very medico-centric representations, concerning the child, autonomous and connected, but also for health standards, concerning family behaviour and investment in care. Although they are initially part of an approach to promoting participation, these tools become mediators of norms, without taking into account the complexity of the individual and the social context, with e-health ultimately becoming a vector for reproducing social inequalities in health.

This article questions how health issues affect health standards. From a diachronic and culturally situated perspective, the objective of the article will be to show that well-being is an evolutionary value in the prisms of societal expectations. A well-being with closed and delimited contours, social issues and the high media coverage of nutrition make it a value evolving, whose qualification is still difficult to grasp. Finally, the article proposes the construction of a tool for measuring food well-being in a hospital context in order to integrate subjective and current elements around patients expectations, at the crossroads of the information and communication sciences and sciences medical.

Cancer prevention is at the heart of public policies in France. Since 2003, under the leadership of President Jacques Chirac, a series of "cancer plans" has been launched by the French government whose goal is the fight against cancer and improving the care of patients. Moreover, today, prevention policies and actions are facing several upheavals due to a more global health crisis. A climate of mistrust towards experts and health institutions has been gradually established, as a result of various political and health affairs, conflicts of interest, but also because of fears aroused by the emergence of diseases, pathologies or viruses that we do not control. We will try to analyze the age by the prism of the norm. That is to say how this variable, in a difficult context is bypassed while it is central in the communications campaigns around organized cancer screening.