%0 Journal Article
%T Quel humanisme pour notre age bio-technologique ? Which humanism in our bio-technological age ? Anthropology as a necessary horizon for medical anthropology.
%A Gilles Bibeau
%J Anthropologie & Sant¨¦ : Revue Internationale Francophone d'Anthropologie de la Sant¨¦
%D 2010
%I Association Amades
%R 10.4000/anthropologiesante.91
%X Face aux d¨¦rives qui touchent de nos jours ¨¤ la d¨¦finition m¨ºme de la vie et de l¡¯humanit¨¦, l¡¯auteur invite ses coll¨¨gues ¨¤ renouer avec leur fonction de vigilance critique et ¨¦thique. L¡¯argument se d¨¦ploie dans trois directions. Il s¡¯ancre d¡¯abord dans l¡¯¨¦tude de l¡¯impact de la biologie mol¨¦culaire sur la m¨¦decine qui tend ¨¤ se transformer, pour une part, en une m¨¦decine pr¨¦dictive et qui engendre de nouvelles d¨¦finitions de la maladie et de la sant¨¦. L¡¯auteur plaide, ensuite, pour un renouvellement des mod¨¨les culturalistes qui ont pr¨¦valu, jusqu¡¯ici, dans l¡¯anthropologie m¨¦dicale et pour leur application ¨¤ l¡¯¨¦tude des nouvelles pathologies (surpoids, ob¨¦sit¨¦, par exemple) qui caract¨¦risent nos soci¨¦t¨¦s d¡¯abondance. Enfin, il propose un virage de notre discipline en direction des ¨¦tudes portant sur l¡¯in¨¦galit¨¦ sociale, dans une ouverture au politique, ¨¤ l¡¯¨¦thique et aux questions de justice sociale et d¡¯¨¦quit¨¦. La prise en compte de ce triple horizon permettra, selon l¡¯auteur, ¨¤ l¡¯anthropologie m¨¦dicale de contribuer ¨¤ construire un nouvel humanisme ajust¨¦ ¨¤ notre age. In this essay, the author invites his anthropological colleagues to develop their function of critical and ethical vigilance, particularly in regard to recent developments in molecular biology. His argument follows three paths. Firstly, he examines a number of ways through which genomics and proteomics impact on the clinical practice in creating a powerful predictive medicine that leads to new definitions of disease and health. Secondly, he argues that medical anthropologists should upgrade and make more complex their classical culturalist models in order to better explore the many layers of factors involved in the genesis of the new prevalent pathologies such as overweight and obesity. Thirdly, he proposes a turn in the practice of medical anthropology that should become more concerned by questions of social inequality, social justice and equity. Building on these three pillars, the author argues that medical anthropology will be in a stronger position to contribute to the construction of a new humanism adjusted to our age.
%K medical anthropology
%K predictive medicine
%K culturalism
%K new pathologies
%K post-genomic humanism
%K anthropologie m¨¦dicale
%K m¨¦decine pr¨¦dictive
%K culturalisme
%K nouvelles pathologies
%K humanisme post-g¨¦nomique
%U http://anthropologiesante.revues.org/91