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Manuel Bächtold, Magali Fuchs-Gallezot
RDST, n°28/2023
Esprit critique et enseignement des sciences et des technologies
Critical thinking and science and technology education
In a context of strong institutional pressure to practise and develop critical thinking in the teaching of science and technology, the RDST editorial board felt it appropriate to examine research in the field of science and technology education on this subject.



Sergio Sismondo, Mathias Girel
Le management fantôme de la médecine
Ghost-Managed Medicine
Les mains invisibles de Big Pharma
Big Pharma's Invisible Hands
Gouvernement en question(s)
Sismondo describes what happens within the chain from the design of the clinical trial to the diffusion of drug results, and highlights what he calls "ghost-management", which allows for a high degree of control of drug science by the pharmaceutical industry to influence doctors' prescriptions.



Laurine Thizy, Justine Vincent, Sinem Gunes, Irem Nihan Balci, Christine Détrez
Biologisation(s)
Biologization(s)
Les usages sociaux de l'argument biologique en santé
Social uses of the biological argument in health
Sociétés, Espaces, Temps
This book, is based on ethnographic field studies deals with the phenomena of "biologization" in the field of health, i.e. with all situations where biological causality prevails in the explanation of human health, to the detriment of other interpretations. To what ends, and with what effects?



David Cross, Isabelle Kermen



Laurence Maurines, Patricia Marzin-Janvier
RDST, n°24/2021
L'enseignement et l'apprentissage des sciences et des technologies dans l'enseignement supérieur
Teaching and learning science and technologies in higher education
When teaching science in higher education is facing important challenges and is undergoing profound changes, and when it is the focus of questioning by both practitioners and educational researchers, this issue returns to an order of education in which didactics has been interested since its emergence.



Edward Sapir, Francis Zimmermann
Anthropologie
Anthropology
Bibliothèque idéale des sciences sociales
Edward Sapir is undoubtedly one of the most important anthropologists of the early 20th century. Long before the development of structural anthropology, Sapir formulated the philosophy of structuralism and laid the foundations of a general science of behaviour.



Joël Lebeaume, Abdelkarim Zaid, Nathalie Magneron
RDST, n°21/2020
Contenus et curricula
Contents and curricula
Curricular issues hold a paradoxical position within research in science and technology didactics.The articles in this special issue offer an overview, and aim to identify some characteristics, of didactic questions from various curricular perspectives.



Henri Ellenberger, Emmanuel Delille
Ethno-psychiatrie
Ethno-psychiatry
Sociétés, Espaces, Temps
Henri Ellenberger's ethnopsychiatry is the first synthesis in the French language on this hybrid discipline at the crossroads of psychiatry and ethnology, which has met with tremendous success in recent decades. This body of work is of great interest within the history of medicine, humanities, and social sciences.



Étienne Ghys
Hors Collection
The purpose of this little book is to invite the reader on a mathematical promenade. We pay a visit to Hipparchus, Newton and Gauss, but also to many contemporary mathematicians. We play with a bit of algebra, topology, geometry, complex analysis, combinatorics, and computer science.



Vincent Borrelli, Jean-Luc Rullière
En cheminant avec Kakeya
Voyage au cœur des mathématiques
Hors Collection



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