Breaking the Silence on Work-Related and Environmentally Induced Cancers

This session counts as one hour of training for all doctoral students enrolled in aUM doctoral school.

In this session, Sylvain Bertschy will present the action research project conducted by the Scientific Interest Group on Occupational and Environmental Cancers in the Vaucluse (GISCOPE 84). 

This is an interdisciplinary research and action program involving medical and paramedical staff, researchers, and occupational health and prevention professionals. Its objective is to generate knowledge about work- and environment-related carcinogenic risks, to assist eligible patients in obtaining recognition of their condition as an occupational disease, and to promote exposure prevention and training.

Sylvain Bertschy is a historian who joined the Norbert Elias Center in 2024 as a junior professor at the University of Avignon. He leads the research and teaching program “Toxicities and Citizenship” (ToxCit), which aims to understand how historical changes in labor and production—particularly their increasing reliance on chemicals—have contributed to the process of “the toxicification of ecosystems and bodies” and how, in turn, this process challenges historical forms of the social and health welfare state.