No. 27 (2018): Les maladies chroniques dans les Suds. Expériences, savoirs et politiques aux marges de la santé globale

Coordinated by Marie-Cécile Frieden, Nils Graber, Meriem M’zoughi. Editorial coordination for Émulations by François Romijn. 

"Chronic diseases" and "South" are terms that are rarely associated but which constitute the core of the reflections carried out within this special issue. The articles describe the experiences of actors - chronic patients, families, health care teams - and show the obstacles, constraints and adaptation strategies in fragile political and economic contexts, where the disarticulation and fragmentation of both national and global health policies are pointed out. The various texts question chronicity as such. Can this category be applied to countries with socio-cultural and structural realities far removed from those in which the concept was forged? Finally, these contributions reveal how the competitive plays between different knowledge or actors are part of a long temporality, are negotiated and renegotiated through time, in the face of doubts, uncertainties, conflicts, often linked to the crucial questions of social recognition of chronicity and care in an illness experience.