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In the wake of the research carried out by Sylvie Vincent in support of Aboriginal claims and on the representation of Aboriginal people, this article aims to identify some issues surrounding the use of history in the legal assessment of Aboriginal rights in Canada. The Hamilton Health Sciences Corp. v. D.H. decision regarding refusal of biomedical treatment for an Indigenous child with leukemia to resort to traditional medicine will serve as an example here. This decision illustrates the extent to which the historical representations entered into evidence, according to legal criteria, can accentuate a symbolic distance between Indigenous and non-Indigenous citizens even when they facilitate the recognition of asserted ancestral rights in the short term. This ultimately hinders achieving the objective of reconciliation advocated by the Canadian state.
Keywords: Histoire, droits ancestraux, réconciliation, représentation, médecine
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This article offers a perspective on an original research collaboration between sociology, epidemiology and medicine, focusing on the preventive care provided by general practitioners. After reflexively tracing the history and conditions under which doctors were introduced to and involved in qualitative research nourished with social sciences, the authors explain the main epistemological tensions produced by this intellectual encounter in a four-dimensional synthesis (status of culture, meaning of inquiry, conduct of analysis and writing process), as well as the ways in which they were able to resolve these tensions. The social utility of the enterprise is then examined in the light of its potential for valorization, as well as the gains in intelligibility it has enabled, illustrated by the case of gynecological cancer screening.
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AbstractGiven their intrinsic characteristics, dictionaries are didactic tools since they facilitate acquisition and decoding of meaning. This multilingual Portuguese /English/ French medical dictionary, intended primarily for medical students, seeks to provide various equivalents using a methodology based on users' needs by establishing lexical priorities through increased international exchange of information pertaining to the medical sciences. Needs are identified through semantic analysis of medical discourse to discover how various concepts are expressed.