[Organ donation is not a gift].

If the obligation to donate as defined by French law ("we are all donors") remains in the wake of sociologist Marcel Mauss's Essai sur le don (Essay on donation), there the similarity ends. How do you make a counter-donation to a deceased person? In the case of inter vivos organ donation, the act is more akin to mutualization than donation.

[Dialysis, kidney transplant : the weight of words].

Dialysis, kidney transplant: the weight of Words. Two treatments are available when both kidneys don't function anymore : dialysis and kidney transplant. How do patients feel about their treatments ? What are the words they use to express their relations to dialysis or transplant ? The analysis of answers written by patients in a survey organized by Renaloo shows the great diversity of the relations patients feel about their treatments.

[Work related stress, sociological analysis].

Experienced on a personal and psychological level, work related stress nevertheless has social causes. New forms of management demand from staff an ever greater personal investment, but the growing intensification of the work often makes the missions they are given impossible to fulfil. This results in a feeling of having failed and of not being up to the job, which are in turn sources of suffering and stress.

[Organ donation, is there recognition for the donor?].

An organ transplant raises the question of the donation and the debt and recognition of the person who receives it. Is organ donation really a gift, or could it be considered as a redistribution or a pooling of resources?