Empires of medicine: Medical education in the British and French Empires
Examination of medicial education in the British and French Empires during the long nineteenth century.
This presentation examines the history of medical education in the British and French Empires during the long nineteenth century. Its target audience is students and staff interested in the history of medical education, as well as the broader colonial history of medicine.
This presentation will offer an overview of the speaker's research on medical education in the British and French empires during the long nineteenth century. It will examine how medical schools shaped professional hierarchies within a medical world increasingly interconnected across continents, questioning the dichotomy between "Western" and "traditional" medicine in empires, and consider how medical schools founded in the nineteenth century within the British and French empires relate to their own imperial pasts today.
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Martin Robert
Martin Robert is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the history of medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His book, derived from his doctoral thesis on the history of anatomical dissections in 19th-century Canada, was published in 2023 by McGill-Queen's University Press.
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