Friday, March 6th 2015, 2-4 PM, Berhanou Abebe Library of Ethiopian Studies (CFEE). The history of the female body in public health with Dr. Anne-Marie Moulin, Historian of medicine, Honorary research director, CNRS (SPHERE).

An agrégé in philosophy and a medical doctor, specialised in tropical pahology and parasitology, Anne Marie Moulin has studied at École Normale Supérieure and has been an intern of French public hospitals. She has shared her life between medicine, philosophy and social science, and lead various research missions in Africa and in Arabic and Muslim countries. She has been the director of the department of Health and Social Science at the IRD (Research Instritute for Development) from 1999 to 2002, and she is now the president of its ethics committee. She published books such as Le dernier langage de la médecine, L'aventure de la vaccination, Le médecin du Prince, Islam et Révolutions médicales, and many articles dealing with historical, epistemological and ethical questions about medicine and international public health.