Having earlier conducted some research on mental health iss… - Didier Fassin

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Having earlier conducted some research on mental health issues, I was solicited in 2008 by the health minister, Roselyne Bachelot, to chair the national committee on suicide, but having observed how academics had served as “spoils of war” – the term in use – by the right-wing government of the time to legitimize its policies, I politely declined the proposal.

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(born 1955) is a French anthropologist and sociologist.

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