Paré Project on the Dupuytren Collection

The Anatomy Emerging Research Project, or Paré Project, is an opportunity for multidisciplinary collaboration initiated in 2016 and funded by Sorbonne Universities (Idex SUPER) around a unique subject: the Dupuytren anatomical pathology collection. This project is dedicated to reflection on anatomical-pathological collections and the representation of disease. The aim is to enable collaboration between researchers and practitioners from diverse backgrounds, each with their own specific approach to disease. While researchers in the humanities or literature are primarily interested in representations and figurations of disease and the hermeneutics of suffering, hospital practitioners and researchers in biology seek first and foremost to understand the causes of disease in order to treat pain and cure patients.

In short, the “Paré” project is a privileged place where perspectives, words and disciplines converge. A book is currently being written to document this work, edited by Claire Crignon, Julie Cheminaud and Danielle Seilhean. It will include numerous photographs of the collection, taken by Christel Jeanne, thus making accessible a collection that can no longer be consulted as it was during the existence of the Dupuytren Museum.

The team:

• Claire Crignon, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
• Julie Cheminaud, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
• Juliette Ferry-Danini, Doctor of Philosophy and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto
• Jean-Cassien Billier, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
  Véronique Boudon-Millot, Director of Research at the CNRS – Director of UMR 8167 (“Greek Medicine” team)
• Patrick Dandrey, Professor of Literature
• Alexandre Escargueil, Professor of Biology and Genetics, Saint-Antoine Research Centre – INSERM UMR S 938
• Maxime Georges-Métraux, PhD student in Art History
• Alessia Guardasole, Senior Research Fellow (HDR), UMR 8167 “Orient and Mediterranean,” Greek Medicine Team
• Corinne Isnard-Bagnis, Professor of Nephrology
• Isabelle Plu, Forensic scientist, Professor of Forensic Medicine
• Danielle Seilhean, Professor of Neuropathology

In order to enable project members to exchange ideas and present the progress of their thinking, seminars were organised on a regular basis. This work was published in a research notebook.