How do public authorities address the numerous contemporary health issues? How do they position themselves with regard to definitions, organisation, regulation, care, and prevention? What policies and tools do they use to influence the various players involved: medical professions and organisations, businesses, scientific bodies, and society? This issue of Cogito provides some answers.

Content

• Introduction: Health and Politics
  By Patrick Castel

• Ambulatory Medical Care in France:An Increasingly Constrained Autonomy for Private Healthcare Professionals
  By Anne Moyal

• Measuring the Quality of Care, a European Overview
  By Anne-Laure Beaussier

• Are communicable diseases only communicable?
  By Catherine Cavalin et Paul-André Rosental

• The Reform of Access to Health Studies in France: the Student’s Perspectives”
  By Agnès van Zanten, Alice Olivier, Christophe Birolini, Audrey Chamboredon et Léon Marbach

• Doping for Work
  par Renaud Crespin

• Conspiracy Theories and Epidemics: What Ebola Can Teach Us
  By Jules Villa

• Between Drugs and Food: Inventing Microbiota Medicine
  By Étienne Nouguez

• Governing the Genome for a Brave New World?
  By Guillaume Levrier

• The Agrofood Industry and Its Political Activities
  By Daniel Benamouzig et Joan Cortinas

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