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

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Philippe Longchamp
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Association Anthropologie Médicale Appliquée au Développement et à la Santé 2014-05-01
Series:Anthropologie & Santé
Subjects:
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/1276
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary: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.
ISSN:2111-5028