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Didier Fassin is a physician, initially practicing internal medicine and studying infectious diseases as a specialist. Recently, he works as a professor of Social Science at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton. Over the years, he has worked on several boards in the politics of science, such as serving on the Bored of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, a public research institution solely focused on human health and medical research. He also works extensively in non-profits to benefit uninsured and undocumented patients, as well as working as administrator of Doctors Without Borders.

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“I wrote about personality and how it might change on medication.”

“We need storytelling, to set us in the clinical moment, remind us of the variety of human experience and enrich our judgment.”

“In psychiatry — and the same is true throughout medicine — randomized trials are rarely large enough to provide guidance on their own.”

“It has been my hope that, while we wait for conclusive science, stories will preserve diversity in our theories of mind. “