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Quebec and Canada's immigration policies aim to attract highly skilled candidates. Yet these migrants face multiple barriers in the labour market. International medical graduates (IMGs) encounter a complex process by which their skills are recognized (or not). Based on a qualitative research with IMGs and key figures in this knowledge & professional skills area, this article discusses the dynamic and relational nature of the recognition process, influenced by social relationships highlighting unequal relations between certain populations. Seeking to understand why some IMGs experience more obstacles than others, beyond factors related to personal characteristics, this article explores how subjective or invisibilized mechanisms at play colour the social and professional recognition of physicians whose aim is to practise medicine in Quebec.
Keywords: Médecins diplômés à l'international, reconnaissance professionnelle, Québec, discrimination, ressources symboliques, International Medical Graduate (IMG), professional recognition, Quebec, discrimination, symbolic resources
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The living fetus has become object of study of medicine only recently, i.e., since the 1960s. The development of prenatal testing and diagnosis has allowed couples and pregnant women to be offered tests that are designed to identify serious in utero conditions, that is, conditions that are considered as incurable at the time of diagnosis. The scientific advances in prenatal diagnosis have also given rise to serious ethical reflections. Jonathan Glover makes a major contribution to this reflection by emphasising the importance of taking into account both the direct consequences and the ‘side-effects’ of a particular practice. This paper first discusses Glover’s perspective on the development of prenatal diagnosis, which he developed over the course of several decades, and focuses then on our current context which is characterized by a so-called “non-invasive” prenatal testing and the development of genomics. Using Glover’s approach, which pays particular attention to the effects of a decision, this paper identifies ethical issues that are particular to our time. The paper concludes that prenatal testing, despite being “non-invasive” from a biological point of view, still raises many ethical issues.
Keywords: diagnostic prénatal, eugénisme, interruption de grossesse, conséquentialisme, valuer de la vie, handicap, information, incertitude, prenatal diagnosis, eugenics, abortion, consequentialism, value of life, disability, information, decision-making uncertainty
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AbstractABSTRACTTechnical and Symbolic Effectiveness : The Homeopathie PerspectiveThis article analyzes the phenomena of technical effectiveness and the effectiveness of symbols in the context of homeopathie care. It explores the relationship between these two levels of reality based on the reflections of homeopaths (who are neither doctors nor pharmacists) on their practice and, in particular, on the therapeutic relationship they strive to develop with their clients. The conclusion questions the social significance of homeopathie care by examining whether this type of care occupies a central symbolic space in our advanced society characterized by continuai technical development in ail spheres of human life.Key words : Sévigny, caring, technical effectiveness, symbolic effectiveness, homeopathy
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AbstractTranslation holds an important place in Arabic thought and culture. This can be seen in the policies in effect in this field during the first dynasties of Islam, the thousand-year-old theoretical refection on these issues and the role played by translators in the transfer of knowledge from one culture to another (from Greek and Person into Arabic).Translation still plays the same role in policies of development in Arab countries, but without bringing about the growth reached by the Arabs more than ten centuries ago.The reasons for this seem to be of a structural nature.