Artificial Intelligence and robotics are rapidly moving into healthcare, playing key roles in
specific medical functions, including diagnosis and clinical treatment. Much of the focus in …

Public Health Systems (PHS) are under continuous transformation in line with economic,
political, and ideological changes in capitalist economies. The current stage of capitalism is …

Social media has emerged to become the most important review mechanism for customers
in various industries. Healthcare, largely a credence service, was once thought to be …

The phenomenon of big data does not only deeply affect current societies but also poses
crucial challenges to social research. This article argues for moving towards a sociology of …

The aim of this article is to analyze the French Social Security System (SSS) within the
framework of the Economics of Convention (EC). From this perspective, we consider that the …

Résumé L'orientation marchande des réformes transforme profondément l'interaction
médecin-patient, qui constitue le noyau dur des systèmes de santé 1. Les patients actifs et …

L'objectif de cette recherche est de mieux comprendre les apports du numérique dans la
sphère médicale avec une approche centrée autour du patient. Aujourd'hui, Internet a …

'Starting from the idea that market and state are intertwined domains, and explaining the
economy as a system of communication evolving through innovation, this excellent book …

This chapter introduces the approach of economics and sociology of conventions (EC/SC) in
the field of healthcare. Health sector is an ideal topic for EC/SC because healthcare and …

Recent transformations in French maternal health care demonstrate how the government of
the beginning of life encompasses an individual woman's desires and aspirations for the …