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Areas of Specialization: Medical Anthropology
Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science for the Institute for Advanced Study, the Chair of Public Health at the College de France, and holds Direction of Studies role in Political and Moral Anthropology at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He earned his MD from Pierre and Marie Curie University, an M.A. from the University of Paris, and a Ph.D. from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

His career began in the medical field, during which time he served as an infectious disease specialist. He moved on to an anthropological approach, studying health inequities in Africa.

Fassin is founder of Iris, the Interdisciplinary Research Institute for Social Sciences and has served as a member of the Scientific Council of the French Institute of Health and Medical Research and the Scientific Council of the City of Paris.

His work has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, including the Chevalier des Palmes Academiques, the Douglass Prize for the Best Book in the Anthropology of Europe, and the Research Prize of the French Red Cross Foundation. He continues his work to drive policy development and scholarship regarding immigration, social justice, and asylum.

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According to Wikipedia, Didier Fassin, born in 1955, is a French anthropologist and sociologist. He is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and holds a Direction of Studies in Political and Moral Anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has been appointed to the Chair of Public Health at the Collège de France. Fassin was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.

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Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present (2011) (1113)
The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood (2009) (680)
Compassion and Repression: The Moral Economy of Immigration Policies in France (2005) (606)
Policing Borders, Producing Boundaries: The Governmentality of Immigration in Dark Times (2011) (454)
Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life (2007) (436)
Another Politics of Life is Possible (2009) (380)
The truth from the body : Medical certificates as ultimate evidence for asylum seekers (2005) (285)
When Bodies RememberExperiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa (2007) (279)
The biopolitics of otherness: Undocumented foreigners and racial discrimination in French public debate (2001) (273)
THE HUMANITARIAN POLITICS OF TESTIMONY: Subjectification through Trauma in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict (2008) (200)
A companion to moral anthropology (2012) (197)
The politics of AIDS in South Africa: beyond the controversies (2003) (161)
WHY ETHNOGRAPHY MATTERS: On Anthropology and Its Publics (2013) (144)
L'Empire du traumatisme. Enquête sur la condition de victime (2007) (144)
Contemporary states of emergency : the politics of military and humanitarian interventions (2010) (143)
When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa (2007) (142)
A Companion to Moral Anthropology: Fassin/A Companion to Moral Anthropology (2012) (115)
Beyond good and evil? (2008) (110)
At the Heart of the State: The Moral World of Institutions (2015) (106)
Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing (2013) (105)
Introduction: Toward a Critical Moral Anthropology (2012) (104)
Humanitarian exception as the rule: The political theology of the 1999 Tragedia in Venezuela (2005) (103)
On Resentment and Ressentiment (2013) (102)
Denial and defiance: a socio-political analysis of AIDS in South Africa. (2002) (95)
The Precarious Truth of Asylum (2013) (94)
Inequality of Lives, Hierarchies of Humanity: Moral Commitments and Ethical Dilemmas of Humanitarianism (2010) (84)
The ethical turn in anthropology (2014) (75)
Critical Evidence: The Politics of Trauma in French Asylum Policies (2007) (74)
The endurance of critique (2017) (68)
True life, real lives: Revisiting the boundaries between ethnography and fiction (2014) (65)
Ethics of Survival: A Democratic Approach to the Politics of Life (2010) (64)
A contribution to the critique of moral reason (2011) (57)
The public afterlife of ethnography (2015) (54)
Moral Economies Revisited (2009) (54)
The embodiment of inequality (2003) (53)
The end of ethnography as collateral damage of ethical regulation (2006) (52)
Comment on juge l'asile : L'institution comme agent moral (2012) (51)
Asylum as a Form of Life: The Politics and Experience of Indeterminacy in South Africa (2017) (50)
The elementary forms of care: an empirical approach to ethics in a South African Hospital. (2008) (48)
An Anthropological Hybrid: The Pragmatic Arrangement of Universalism and Culturalism in French Mental Health (2005) (46)
Embodied history. Uniqueness and exemplarity of South African AIDS (2002) (43)
Writing the World of Policing: The Difference Ethnography Makes (2017) (41)
The Trace: Violence, Truth, and the Politics of the Body (2014) (40)
RACIALIZATION To Do Races With Bodies (2011) (37)
Plumbism reinvented: childhood lead poisoning in France, 1985-1990. (2004) (36)
Illicit sale of pharmaceuticals in Africa: sellers and clients in the suburbs of Dakar. (1988) (35)
Riots in France and silent anthropologists (2006) (32)
The Will to Punish (2018) (30)
Negotiating care: patient tactics at an urban South African hospital (2010) (30)
The embodied past. From paranoid style to politics of memory in South Africa (2008) (29)
Traditional medicine and the stakes of legitimation in Senegal. (1988) (28)
A case for critical ethnography: rethinking the early years of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. (2013) (28)
Acute respiratory infections: a longitudinal study of 151 children in Burkina-Faso. (1986) (27)
AIDS-associated leishmaniasis: an unusual gastro-duodenal presentation. (1990) (27)
Life & Times of Magda A (2008) (26)
What Is it to Become French ? Naturalization as a Republican Rite of Institution (2009) (24)
How Asylum Claims Are Adjudicated: The Institution as a Moral Agent (2012) (24)
4. Children as Victims The Moral Economy of Childhood in the Times of AIDS (2013) (24)
Who consults and where? Sociocultural differentiation in access to health care in urban Africa. (1988) (23)
Public health as culture. The social construction of the childhood lead poisoning epidemic in France. (2004) (23)
The Predicament of Humanitarianism (2013) (22)
Me Tangere The Moral Untouchability of Humanitarianism (2011) (20)
[Prevalence of rheumatic manifestations in human immunodeficiency virus infection]. (1993) (19)
Avenues of Access and the Moral Economy of Legitimacy (2001) (18)
La economía moral del asilo. Reflexiones críticas sobre la «crisis de los refugiados» de 2015 en Europa The Moral Economy of Asylum. Critical Reflections on the 2015 «Refugee Crisis» in Europe (2015) (18)
Moral anthropology : a critical reader (2014) (17)
If Truth Be Told: The Politics of Public Ethnography (2017) (17)
Immunization coverage and social differentiation in urban Senegal. (1989) (17)
Comment on juge l'asile (2012) (16)
When Bodies Remember (2019) (16)
Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition (2016) (16)
«Clandestins» ou «exclus» ? Quand les mots font des politiques (1996) (13)
The Politics of Death (2008) (13)
Should anthropology be moral? A debate (2008) (13)
RITUAL BUFFOONERY: A SOCIAL PREVENTIVE MEASURE AGAINST CHILDHOOD MORTALITY IN SENEGAL (1986) (13)
[The origins and foundations of social inequalities in health]. (2004) (12)
Towards a Critical Moral Anthropology (2012) (12)
The Police Are the Punishment (2019) (11)
[Is Behçet's disease associated with characteristic abnormalities of coagulation and fibrinolysis? Apropos of 70 case reports]. (1988) (10)
Influence of social perceptions of leprosy and leprosy patients on public health programs. (1990) (10)
Of Plots and Men (2021) (10)
At the Heart of the State (2015) (10)
[Illicit sales of drugs in Senegal. Consequences for community health]. (1986) (9)
Ombre (L') du monde : une anthropologie de la condition carcérale (2015) (8)
[Surveys on access to health care in Africa. Methodological problems]. (1991) (8)
Durkheim and the Moral Fact (2011) (7)
[Social capital, from sociology to epidemiology: critical analysis of a transfer across disciplines]. (2003) (7)
Deepening Divides : How Territorial Borders and Social Boundaries Delineate Our World (2019) (7)
The Parallel Lives of Philosophy and Anthropology (2014) (7)
Place of antiretroviral drugs in the treatment of HIV-infected people in Africa. International AIDS Society. (1999) (7)
Ethnopsychiatry and the Postcolonial Encounter: A French Psychopolitics of Otherness (2011) (7)
La question morale : une anthologie critique (2013) (6)
MATERNAL MORTALITY IN A SAHELIAN CAPITAL (1989) (6)
Introduction: When Ethnography Goes Public (2017) (6)
The Mystery Child and the Politics of Reproduction: Between National Imaginaries and Transnational Confrontations (2011) (6)
[Venous thrombosis in Behçet's disease]. (1988) (6)
Scenes from urban life: a modest proposal for a critical perspectivist approach (2013) (5)
Report of chloroquine resistance malaria in Niger. (1991) (5)
Are the Two Approaches to Moral Economy Irreconcilable? (2020) (5)
[Caval thromboses and systemic diseases]. (1986) (5)
A Violence of History Accounting for AIDS in Post-apartheid South Africa (2009) (5)
The Imprint of the Past (2007) (4)
Moral Reasoning and the Social Good (2012) (4)
Justice Principles and Judgment Practices in Allotting Emergency State Financial Aid in France (2003) (4)
Adventures of African Nevirapine: The Political Biography of a Magic Bullet (2015) (4)
The Bamako initiative [letter]. (1989) (3)
INTRODUCTION. Ethnographying the Police (2019) (3)
Rethinking Paternalism: The Meaning of Gender and Sex in the Politics of Asylum (2017) (3)
[Q fever in Guinea-Bissau. 1 case]. (1989) (3)
TWELVE. Boredom: Accounting for the Ordinary in the Work of Policing (France) (2019) (3)
THE BAMAKO INITIATIVE (1989) (3)
Hazardous confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic: The fate of migrants detained yet nondeportable (2020) (3)
A moral interpretation of police deviance (2018) (2)
[The good mother: rural and urban practices related to measles in Haalpulareen women in Senegal]. (1986) (2)
[Value of cytopheresis in the treatment of loaiasis]. (1985) (2)
CA THE HUMANITARIAN POLITICS OF TESTIMONY : Subjectification through Trauma in theIsraeli – Palestinian Conflict (2008) (2)
HumanismA Critical Reappraisal (2019) (2)
43. The Value of Life and the Worth of Lives (2019) (2)
[Physical handicapped, economic practices and matrimonial strategies in Senegal]. (1991) (1)
[Utilization of health statistics in peripheral structures in developing countries]. (1991) (1)
The private domain of public health. Power politics and AIDS in the Congo (1994) (1)
A World of Prisons (2016) (1)
Introduction: Humanitarian Government (2019) (1)
[Global health, a new concept? Some teachings about Ebola virus epidemics]. (2015) (1)
Review essay: On the politics of our humanitarian present † (2013) (1)
Une anthropologie politique et morale de la question sociale (2016) (1)
[`The good mother: rural and urban practices for measles among Haalpulaaren mothers in Senegal] (1986) (1)
‘ Between Compassion and Conservatism : A Genealogy of British Humanitarian Sensibilities ’ , in (2010) (1)
The Public Presence of Anthropology : A Critical Approach (2018) (1)
Epilogue: The Public Afterlife of Ethnography (2017) (1)
Epilogue: In search of global health (2020) (1)
The Laws of Inequality (2004) (1)
On secularism and politics: A reply to Hannoum (2015) (1)
Between nationalist desire and conspiracy theory. Drugs ideologies in South Africa (2007) (1)
When Humanitarianism Turns Realistic (2013) (1)
The Political Anatomy of a Controversy (2003) (1)
1. How Is Critique? (2019) (1)
Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation by Sophie Pedder (2018) (1)
[Rupture of pulmonary hydatid cysts under corticotherapy]. (1985) (1)
The stranger and the enemy: comment on Clara Han's essay (2013) (1)
South African News on Aids (2005) (0)
AFTERWORD (2020) (0)
L’exception, ou la règle ? (2011) (0)
The political geography and moral economy of asylum (2020) (0)
Spring 2011 Workshop History & Sociology of Science, Medicine & Technology (2011) (0)
The Embodiment of the World (2007) (0)
Massacre of the Innocents (2011) (0)
[Epidemiology and prevention of acute articular rheumatism. Apropos of an experience in a suburban quarter of Tunisia]. (1982) (0)
Crisis and Critique: A Discourse on the Method (2018) (0)
13. CRISIS (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (1967) (0)
[Systemic disease and thrombosis of the major vessels]. (1984) (0)
[Salmonella septicemia in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome]. (1985) (0)
Who Gets Punished? (2018) (0)
In the Field. A Sociologist’s Journey (2012) (0)
NTRODUCTION: FROM WORDS TO WORLDS (2021) (0)
The Policy Anthropologists (2008) (0)
Transcultural Psychiatry, « Rethinking Trauma », vol. 37, n 3, septembre 2000, 175 p. (2003) (0)
The Rise of Public Health (2003) (0)
[Adult Still's disease. Apropos of 2 cases]. (1982) (0)
[Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa in France: some elements for the present discussion]. (1986) (0)
THE MULTIPLE FIGURES OF THE WITNESS IN PALESTINE (2018) (0)
Hierarchies of Humanity (2011) (0)
Critique of Punitive Reason (2020) (0)
Conclusion: This World We Live In (2019) (0)
[Maternal death: unequal risks]. (1989) (0)
What Is a Critique of Punishment? (2018) (0)
controversiespolitics of AIDS in South Africa: beyond the (2005) (0)
FOUR That Obscure Object of Global Health (2020) (0)
From the Invention of Trauma to Victim Recognition (2014) (0)
5. The Embodiment of theWorld (2019) (0)
A new experimental site for the study of snow avalanches in the Aosta Valley (NW-Italy) (2010) (0)
Extension of the Ethical Domain (2008) (0)
Part II. Worlds (2019) (0)
Connecting Borders and Boundaries (2019) (0)
Conclusion: Rethinking Punishment (2018) (0)
Didier Fassin A Critical Anthropology Of Morals Pdf (2022) (0)
An Irreconcilable Truth: Memory and History of AIDS in the Post-Apartheid Era (2006) (0)
Anthropologie et folie in Le corps. (1984) (0)
A Double Grief (2001) (0)
[P. falciparum malaria contracted in Burundi, resistant to chloroquine and diminished sensitivity to quinine]. (1984) (0)
CombatEthnographique (2010) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (1964) (0)
The Moral World of Law Enforcement (2013) (0)
From Words to Worlds (2021) (0)
Social origins of health inequalities in Ecuador (1991) (0)
In Conversation with Sindre Bangstad and Paul Wenzel Geissler About Anthropology’s Great Expectations. Conducted via E-Mail Correspondence in October/November 2016. (2017) (0)
Part I. Politics (2019) (0)
Brief Chronology of South African History (2019) (0)
[The laws of inhospitality: immigration policies and the test posed by undocumented immigrants] (1997) (0)
Thanks to Reviewers (2012) (0)
Preface: crisis as experience and politics (2022) (0)
Afterword: The Age of Security (2020) (0)
Risk groups and risk areas. (1989) (0)
[Social inequalities in health. A dossier to be reopened]. (2004) (0)
Refugees, Anthropology, and Law (2018) (0)
What Is Punishment? (2018) (0)
A Nameless Topic (2008) (0)
Ethics Beyond the Rule (2008) (0)
Essay Health Inequalities in France (2001) (0)
[Health and population in the Senegambia from the beginning to 1960: an annotated bibliography] (1989) (0)
Discretionary Power and Security Politics (2014) (0)
The French Version of Discrimination (2002) (0)
The Blind Spots of Left Populism (2019) (0)
Thinking with Balibar (2020) (0)
Preliminary measurements and survey at the Italian avalanche test site Punta Seehore (2011) (0)
1. As If Nothing Ever Happened (2019) (0)
Conclusion: Critique of Humanitarian Reason (2019) (0)
Reshaping the Psychiatric Clinic (2004) (0)
Subjectivity Without Subjects (2011) (0)
Asylums and Prisons (2015) (0)
Desire For Exception (2011) (0)
The Odd Couple : Quasars and Black Holes A cosmic detective story (2015) (0)
[A sociologic study of health care accessibility in an urban milieu in Tunis]. (1984) (0)
How the pandemic challenges democracy (2020) (0)
2. An Epidemic of Disputes (2019) (0)
Political and Moral Anthropology of the Social Question (2016) (0)
Anatomy of the Controversies (2007) (0)
[Inferior caval syndromes. Apropos of 45 cases]. (1984) (0)
Public Health at Risk: Interview with Lucien Abenhaïm, Former General Director of Health (2004) (0)
[Program of the campaign against acute rheumatoid arthritis within the framework of primary health care]. (1983) (0)
CHAPTER 11. Adventures of African Nevirapine: The Political Biography of a Magic Bullet (2020) (0)
A story of violence (2012) (0)
Unequal Access to Social Services in Case of Emergency (2001) (0)
Discussion and debat plenary A (2012) (0)
History and Hope: The International Humanitarian Reader, edited by Kevin M. Cahill (2014) (0)
[Evaluation of health interventions. 2. To evaluate a maternal-child protection program]. (1990) (0)
A LEXICON FOR DARK TIMES VEENA DAS & DIDIER FASSIN EDITORS (2021) (0)
Moral Economy and Protest (2015) (0)
[Superior caval syndrome. Diagnostic and therapeutic management. Apropos of 20 cases]. (1985) (0)
Why Does One Punish? (2018) (0)
Les sciences sociales comme pratique engagéeSocial sciences as praxis (2001) (0)
6. Living with Death (2019) (0)
The Age of Security (2018) (0)
Suffering by the social, governing by listening (2006) (0)

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