Fabien Provost
Fabien Provost is a social anthropologist at the French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a member of the Centre for South Asian and Himalayan Studies (CESAH). After focusing on the practice of forensic medicine (for his PhD), and on the politics of cancer care in North Indian hospitals (as a member of the project Grid Oncology: Remaking Cancer Care in India, 2020-2023), Fabien’s research now looks at the transformations of the notion of evidence in the aftermath of the Bhopal 1984 gas tragedy.
Fabien is the author of Les mots de la morgue. 'La médecine légale en Inde du Nord' (2021, Éditions Mimésis) and the scientific editor of several collective publications. He is an elected member of the Association Française d’Ethnologie et d’Anthropologie and serves on the editorial board of journals Purushartha and Genèses.
5 articles contributed
Nils Graber, postdoctoral fellow, History of Science Department at Humboldt University, Berlin, in conversation with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). In this episode, we delve into the scholarly journey of Nils Graber, where the ethnographic exploration of immunotherapy within the healthcare systems of Cuba and Switzerland reveals a narrative […]
Héloïse Pillayre, postdoctoral researcher, Sciences Po, Lyon, in conversation with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). In this episode, sociologist Héloïse Pillayre recounts her doctoral and postdoctoral journeys, beginning with her study of the controversies surrounding cancer as an occupational disease in France. She then delves into her more recent […]
Podcast with Chen Ying, Lecturer, National University of Singapore, in discussion with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). In her ethnographic study among Qigong patient groups near Shanghai (China), Chen Ying describes the emergence of an activist movement whose objective is to cure cancer through the practice of Guo Lin […]
Podcast with Cecilia Van Hollen, Professor at Georgetown University, in discussion with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). This next episode of the podcast takes us to South India. Cecilia Van Hollen narrates the personal and intellectual journey behind her latest book, Cancer and the Kali Yuga: Gender, Inequality, and Health in South India […]
With recent emphasis on “cancer epidemics” in Asia and Africa (Banerjee 2020; Travis 2007; Lingwood et al. 2008) it has become increasingly clear that cancer is not only a problem of the wealthy or the global north but a matter of global concern. In the past decade, there has been a particularly significant expansion in […]
