Ce qu’écouter veut dire

Drawing on ethnographic research about the activity of school nurses in Geneva, this article analyses the issue of social norms involved in the notion of « contemporary patient » and how varyingly effective the imposition of these norms turns out to be with children of different social origins. « Li...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Philippe Longchamp
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Association Anthropologie Médicale Appliquée au Développement et à la Santé
Series:Anthropologie & Santé
Subjects:
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/1276
_version_ 1797308852847247360
author Philippe Longchamp
author_facet Philippe Longchamp
author_sort Philippe Longchamp
collection DOAJ
description Drawing on ethnographic research about the activity of school nurses in Geneva, this article analyses the issue of social norms involved in the notion of « contemporary patient » and how varyingly effective the imposition of these norms turns out to be with children of different social origins. « Listening » is the privileged mode of intervention of school nurses, who use it as a way to place the child « at the center » of the interaction. While listening, nurses however face children’s unequal predispositions to self-narration and struggle in particular with children from working classes, with whom this mode of intervention appears ineffective. Idealized in speech, the sought-after pair of the « available nurse » and the « autonomous child », which this article aims to illustrate, only operates under certain social conditions.
first_indexed 2024-03-08T01:17:42Z
format Article
id doaj.art-f18364d826ed46ad8c6a2329df5e381a
institution Directory Open Access Journal
issn 2111-5028
language fra
last_indexed 2024-03-08T01:17:42Z
publisher Association Anthropologie Médicale Appliquée au Développement et à la Santé
record_format Article
series Anthropologie & Santé
spelling doaj.art-f18364d826ed46ad8c6a2329df5e381a2024-02-14T14:40:06ZfraAssociation Anthropologie Médicale Appliquée au Développement et à la SantéAnthropologie & Santé2111-5028810.4000/anthropologiesante.1276Ce qu’écouter veut direPhilippe LongchampDrawing on ethnographic research about the activity of school nurses in Geneva, this article analyses the issue of social norms involved in the notion of « contemporary patient » and how varyingly effective the imposition of these norms turns out to be with children of different social origins. « Listening » is the privileged mode of intervention of school nurses, who use it as a way to place the child « at the center » of the interaction. While listening, nurses however face children’s unequal predispositions to self-narration and struggle in particular with children from working classes, with whom this mode of intervention appears ineffective. Idealized in speech, the sought-after pair of the « available nurse » and the « autonomous child », which this article aims to illustrate, only operates under certain social conditions.https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/1276nursesself-narrative dispositionrelationship to bodysocial inequalitiesSwitzerland
spellingShingle Philippe Longchamp
Ce qu’écouter veut dire
Anthropologie & Santé
nurses
self-narrative disposition
relationship to body
social inequalities
Switzerland
title Ce qu’écouter veut dire
title_full Ce qu’écouter veut dire
title_fullStr Ce qu’écouter veut dire
title_full_unstemmed Ce qu’écouter veut dire
title_short Ce qu’écouter veut dire
title_sort ce qu ecouter veut dire
topic nurses
self-narrative disposition
relationship to body
social inequalities
Switzerland
url https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/1276
work_keys_str_mv AT philippelongchamp cequecouterveutdire