Breaking the invisibility of occupational and environmental cancers

This session counts as one hour of training for all doctoral students enrolled in a UM 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 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 carcinogenic risks related to work and the environment, to support eligible patients in obtaining recognition of occupational disease, and to promote exposure prevention and training.

Sylvain Bertschy is a researcher in history. He 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 work and production, particularly their chemical intensification, have contributed to the process of "toxification of ecosystems and bodies" and how, in turn, this process is challenging historical forms of the social and health welfare state.