CEPEL

Laurent VISIER

Career History

  • Lecturer since 2000.
  • PU since 2012.
  • Member of CEPEL since 2012.

Degrees

  • EHESS dissertation: 1997 (advisor: A. Touraine).
  • HDR, Paris IV Sorbonne – 2009.

Awards, honors, and coordination of or participation in research projects

  • Coordination of the “Health and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods” Program: 2014–2017.
  • Coordination of the “Schools and Social Diversity” Program, 2006–2009.

Administrative Responsibilities, Research, and Commercialization

  • Head of the SHSMed Department – School of Medicine – University of Montpellier

Interactions with the Environment

  • Expert member of the High Council for Public Health (HCSP).
  • President of the National Council of Social Sciences and Humanities Teachers in Medicine (COSHSEM).
  • Guest expert member of the CNESCO (National Council for the Evaluation of the School System), Paris, June 2015.

The 5 Most Representative Works

  • Laurent Visier, A History of the CFDT Federation of Health and Social Services Unions, 1935–1985. Paris: DS. Multiple, 1995.
  • Geneviève Zoïa, Laurent Visier, *Welcoming Newly Arrived Students in France*, Paris: La documentation française/FASILD, 2004.
  • Jean-Marc Mouillie, Céline Lefève, Laurent Visier, *Medicine and the Humanities: A Textbook for Medical Studies*, Paris: Les belles lettres, 2007.
  • New edition, completely revised in 2011.
  • Laurent Visier, Medicine,Illness, Society: Medical Ethics, Montpellier: Sauramps Médical, 2008.
  • Laurent Visier, Geneviève Zoïa, *School District Maps and the Urban Landscape*, Paris: PUF, 2008.

The 5 Most Representative Articles

  • Visier, L., and Zoïa, G. “Professionalization and Deprofessionalization: A Comparison of Education and Health Care.”*Recherche et Formation*, 2014, no. 70.
  • Lang, T., Jusot, F., Visier, L., Menvielle, G., Lombrail, P. “Reducing Tobacco Use: How Can We Address Social Inequalities in Health?” *Actualité et dossier en santé publique* 2012, 81.
  • Visier, L. “Comparative Perspectives on Inequality and Justice in Health and Education,” in Marie Duru-Bellat and Denis Meuret (DS), Les sentiments de justice à et sur l’école, Brussels: De Boeck Université, 2009.
  • Visier, L., “Twenty Years of Teaching the Social Sciences and Humanities in Medical Education in France,” Bioethica Forum, 2011/4.
  • Visier, L., “Sheltered Employment for Persons with Disabilities,” International Labor Review, Vol. 137, No. 3, Geneva, 1998. (Translated into French and Spanish.)