Why is life not the same price everywhere and for everyone?
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By: Caroline Lachowsky
Why is life not the same price everywhere and for everyone? Why so many inequalities further amplified by the pandemic? Perspectives from the anthropologist Didier Fassin and the Congolese biologist Francine Ntoumi.
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Why is life not the same price everywhere and for everyone? Question further amplified by the pandemic revealing so many health and social inequalities, but also economic, environmental, political and legal that have become unbearable ... Just as unbearable as the lynching of a man because of his skin color ... Black lives matter, what seems to be obvious is still not obvious in the XXIth century
Why and how not to resolve the inequality of lives? "A life is born before another it is true, yet no life is better than another life ...", sentence extracted from the charter of the Mandé of the Mali Empire of the 13th century.
With Didier Fassin , anthropologist, sociologist and doctor, He is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Elected to the Collège de France, he holds the 2019-2020 Chair in Public Health . His work Death of a traveler was published at Seuil in March 2020.
Francine Ntoumi , Congolese biologist specializing in malaria. She is the first African woman responsible for the secretariat of the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria, Director General of the Congolese Foundation for Medical Research and member of the IRD's Covid-19 Scientific Committee .
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