Challenges and Perspectives in the Study of Public Policies Concerning a Healthy Body

Abstract

The text first proposes to return to the cross-cutting lines of reflection in the various articles composing this thematic issue of the journal Émulations and which seem to us to raise important issues concerning the sociology of public policies of the healthy body. The issues of the multiplication or even the scattering of public health policies are thus addressed; the normative models that are at the heart of these policies as well as possible resistance to them; relations of domination that play out in the processes of impositions/resistance to health standards. On the other hand, we propose to outline future research avenues that could be fruitful in terms of the theme dealt with in this dossier, and which are based on the proposals of the researchers in this issue. Finally, we make some epistemological reflections that seem t