Towards a Political Sociology of Social Health Inequalities

Abstract

In late 2021, in issue 3 of the Revue française des affaires sociales, Jean-Charles Basson, Nadine Haschar-Noé and Marina Honta devoted a dossier to “The Production of Social Health Inequalities” in which they emphasised the social construction of health inequalities, the undermining of the legitimate access to health-related rights and healthcare use, and lastly the political production of health. In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, the authors revisit their questions and launch an international call for the deconstruction of the social production of health discrimination. They are joined by Michelle Kelly-Irving and Cyrille Delpierre, whose work in social epidemiology contributes to the much-needed interdisciplinary understanding of the phenomenon.