CEPEL

Laurent VISIER

Career history

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

Degrees

  • EHESS thesis: 1997 (supervised by A. Touraine).
  • HDR, Paris IV Sorbonne – 2009.

Awards, distinctions, and coordination or participation in research projects

  • Coordination of the Health and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Program: 2014–2017.
  • Coordination of the School and Social Diversity Program 2006-2009.

Administrative responsibilities, research, and promotion

  • Head of the SHSMed Department – Faculty 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 at 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 Handbook for Medical Studies, Paris: Les belles lettres, 2007.
  • New edition completely revised in 2011.
  • Laurent Visier, Medicine,Illness, Society: Medical Ethics, Montpellier: Sauramps Medical, 2008.
  • Laurent Visier, Geneviève Zoïa, School Zoning and Urban Areas, Paris: PUF, 2008.

The 5 most representative articles

  • Visier L., Zoïa G. "Professionalization and deprofessionalization: a comparison between education and healthcare."Research and Training, 2014. No. 70.
  • Lang T., Jusot F., Visier L., Menvielle G., Lombrail P. "Reducing tobacco consumption: how can social inequalities in health be taken into account?" Public Health News and Reports 2012, 81.
  • Visier, L. "Comparative perspectives on inequality and justice in health and education," in Marie Duru-Bellat, Denis Meuret (DS), Feelings of justice at and about school, Brussels: De Boeck Université, 2009.
  • Visier L., "Twenty years of teaching social sciences and humanities in medical studies 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).