Didier Fassin - Selected Publications#

Books - Monographs

Pouvoir et maladie en Afrique. Anthropologie sociale de la banlieue de Dakar,PUF, Paris, 1992

L'espace politique de la santé. Essai de généalogie, PUF, Paris, 1996

Quand les corps se souviennent. Expérience et politique du sida après l’apartheid, La Découverte, Paris, 2006. Translation (2007): When Bodies Remember. Experience and Politics of AIDS in Post-apartheid South Africa, University of California Press, Berkeley. Also appearing in Italian edition.

L’empire du traumatisme. Enquête sur la condition de victime (with R. Rechtman), Flammarion, Paris, 2007. Translation (2009): The Empire of Trauma. Inquiry into the Condition of Victims, Princeton University Press, Princeton. Also appearing in Italian and Korean editions.

La raison humanitaire. Une histoire morale du temps présent, Hautes Etudes-Gallimard-Seuil, Paris, 2010. Translation (2011) : Humanitarian Reason. A Moral History of the Present, University of California Press, Berkeley. Also appearing in Italian and Spanish editions.

La Force de l'ordre. Une anthropologie de la police des quartiers, Seuil, Paris, 2011. Translation (2013): Enforcing Order. Ethnographie of Urban Policing, Polity Press, Cambridge. Also appearing in Italian and Spanish editions.

L'Ombre du monde. Une anthropologie de la condition carcérale, Seuil, Paris, 2015. Translation (2016): Prison Wrolds. An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2016. Also appearing in Portuguese edition.

Punir. Une passion contemporaine, Seuil, Paris, 2017. Translation: The Will to Punish. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018. Also appearing in German, Italian, Spanish and Taiwanese editions.

La Vie. Mode d'emploi critique, Seuil, Paris, 2018.Translation: Life: A Critical User’s Manual. Polity Press, Cambridge,, 2018. Also appearing in German, Italian, Spanish and Chinese editions.

Mort d'un voyageur. Une contre-enquête, Seuil, Paris, 2020. Translation: Death of a Traveller. A Counter Investigation, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2021.

Les Mondes de la santé publique. Excursions anthropologiques. Cours au Collège de France 2021, Seuil, Paris.

Another seven (7) monographs, twenty-three (23) edited books and more than 125 articles as only or first author in scientific journals.