Inserm U1290, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Research on Healthcare Performance (RESHAPE)
Membre non-permanente au Centre Max Weber UMR5283
- Sociology of health and medicine
- Philosophy of illness
- Women’s health
- Body, gender, emotions
- Qualitative methods
Sinem Gunes holds a PhD in Philosophy and Sociology of Health. She defended her dissertation, « Managing One’s Life, Body, and Emotions after a breast cancer diagnosis » , in February 2025. From December 2022 to June 2024, as Principal Investigator of the SSIRT project, funded by the Cancéropôle Lyon Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, she designed and conducted a qualitative research study on the return to work of breast cancer patients from disadvantaged social backgrounds. Between 2020 and 2022, she co-organized the seminar « Réseaux d’idées sur la Santé » (Networks of Ideas on Health) at the University of Lyon.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9004-1353
Codirection d’ouvrage
- Laurine Thizy, Justine Vincent, Sinem Gunes, Irem Nihan Balci (dir.), Biologisation(s). Les usages sociaux de l'argument biologique en santé, Lyon, ENS Éditions, series: « Sociétés, espaces, temps », 2023, 252 p., ISBN : 979-10-362-0647-4.
Chapitre d’ouvrage
- Laurine Thizy, Justine Vincent, Sinem Gunes, Irem Nihan Balci, « Introduction. De la médicalisation de la santé aux biologisations ordinaires » in Thizy, Laurine (dir.), Biologisation(s), ENS Éditions, 2023, p. 9-26
Recensions scientifiques :
- Gunes, S. (2021). “Eviatar Zerubavel, Taken for Granted : The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable”, Anthropology in Action, 28(3), 44-50. https://doi.org/10.3167/aia.2021.280305
- Gunes, S. (2019). « Christine Bard, Frédérique Le Nan (dir.), Dire le genre. Avec les mots, avec le corps », Lectures [En ligne], Les comptes rendus, 2019, mis en ligne le 22 mai 2019. https://doi.org/10.4000/lectures.34685
