2023-09-05 18:02:15
We are with Julien Guillard” and Patrice Girardier. The first was exposed to phytosanitary products and the second to ionizing radiation. Both contracted cancer and recount their administrative, legal or moral obstacle course.
There are two ways to have occupational cancer recognized, explains Anne Marchand, historian and sociologist, author of the recent “To die of his work”. If there is a table of occupational diseases and the patient meets the conditions of the table, recognition is almost automatic. In the opposite case, ultra majority, it is necessary to prove the link between its activity and the occurrence of cancer, as Anne Marchand explains: “It is far from being a simple administrative act. When one commits to a declaration of an occupational disease, most often one does not suspect that one is entering into a space of conflict and into a space where one will have to fit one’s situation into a very narrow framework which is that of the tables. occupational diseases”. She explains that they can be the difficulties of recognition of an occupational cancer: “This is very difficult for several reasons, but a major reason is that cancer, like many diseases, is a multifactorial disease. So how can we prove that work is directly and essentially the factor of cancer? It’s almost impossible to prove”.
Recognition can thus take several years, and we discover the obstacles with Anne Marchand. She recalls how much these cancers go under the radar and she urges greater consideration of the dangers for hairdressers, masons, mechanics, cleaners, manicurists, or subcontractors in nuclear power plants.
A documentary by Rémi Dybowski Douatdirected by Anne Depelchin.
With :
Anne Marchand , historian and sociologist, author of the book, Dying of work today – Survey of occupational cancersWorkshop editions, 2022
Julien Guillard,
Henri Bastos,
Patrice Girardier.
Liens :
File on occupational cancers online on the site of the INRS, National Institute for Research and Safety for the Prevention of Workplace Accidents and Occupational Diseases. Annie Thébaud-Mony: Professional histories and cancer, in Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, vol. 163, No. 3, 2006. If you are going to die, type star. Fighting for the recognition of occupational cancers. Article by Anne Marchand, in Z, Traveling Review of Investigation and Social Criticism, vol. 13, issue 1, 2020. The implementation of the right to compensation for occupational cancers: reading and shaping bodies. Article by Julie Primerano, in Revue française des affaires sociales, n°3, 2020. These occupational cancers that kill in silence: article by Selim Derkaoui published in Le Monde Diplomatique, June 2022.
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