Researcher profile #6603

CAMUS
Agathe
Post-doctoral fellow Philosophy of medicine
Which conditions or patient groups does your research focus on?
Assignment
Sciences, société, historicité, éducation et pratiques
S2HEP / UR 4148
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
38 Boulevard Niels Bohr
69622 VILLEURBANNE CEDEX
Your fields of study
Epistemology
Ethics
Philosophy
Keywords (3–5) specifying your research topics
Chronic diseases and polypathologies
Ordinary life
Chronic experience
Care pathways
Disability
Care technologies
Dialysis
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Selected publications

Camus A., Gaille, M., Lancelot M., « Maladies chroniques et situations de handicap. Expériences vécues et formes d’accompagnement tout au long de la vie », Éditorial, Numéro spécial, Alter, Revue européenne de recherche sur le handicap, Éditions de l’EHESS, 1er trimestre 2022

Camus, A., « Quelle santé et quelle autonomie à la fin de la vie ? Ressources philosophiques pour une approche plurielle de la santé », dans Carvallo, S. (dir.), Fins de vies plurielles. Mourir en démocratie, Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2021

Camus, A., « L’autonomie et ses tensions, de la philosophie au champ de la santé », étude pour la nouvelle édition du Manuel du Collège des enseignants de sciences humaines et sociales en médecine et santé, Les Belles-Lettres, 2021

Camus, A., Décision médicale et travail du soin. Repenser la santé et l'autonomie au long cours. John Libbey Eurotext, DOIN, coll. LA personne en médecine, 2025

A brief description of your work

My fields of research, from my thesis to the present day, are those of chronicity, multimorbidity and disability, which I approach in a cross-disciplinary manner. In particular, I question the categories of health, autonomy and "normal life" - both in their philosophical sense and in their ordinary or still medical uses - in the light of situations of multimorbidity, polypathology, or geriatric frailty, pediatric post-cancer as a "chronic condition" or chronic illness and the situations of visible or invisible disability associated with it.

My research, because it questions the chronic experience of living with an illness or disability, leads me to address themes linked to the end of life and more broadly to the end of life.

Currently, I am working more specifically on the experience of people with kidney failure on dialysis and/or awaiting transplant.

What conditions does your research focus on?