Pierre Huard


Pierre Huard was a French physician, historian of medicine and anthropologist, long in post in Indochina, dean of several faculties of medicine, rector of the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, a pioneer in the history of medicine.

Biography

Born in Bastia, where his father was the director of customs, Pierre Huard studied at the École de santé navale before being posted to Syria, then in French Indochina. He returned to France in 1936 to pass the , but immediately returned to the hospital and medical school of Hanoi. After the Second World War, he was appointed Dean of the Hanoi Medical University. During the First Indochina War, he was a delegate of the French High Command and the Red Cross after the Battle of Diên Biên Phu for the repatriation of wounded French soldiers. In 1957, he became medical officer of the troupes de marine, appointed professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Rennes then at that of Paris. From 1964 to 1966, he was Rector of the University of Abidjan, then study director at the École pratique des hautes études. From 1970 to 1979, he was director of the of the Paris Descartes University.
Pierre Huard was the founder of the "European Center for the History of Medicine" at the Université Louis-Pasteur of Strasbourg
and the "Institute of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy" at the René Descartes University. He was president of the "Société française d'histoire de la médecine". He also was a member of the Society of Anthropology of Paris
In 1967, he was awarded the Prix Broquette-Gonin for his book Mille ans de chirurgie .

Works by Pierre Huard

The publications of Pierre Huard, in addition to those of a purely medical nature, mainly concern the history of medicine, surgery and life sciences, the history of science in Vietnam, Japanese and traditional Chinese medicine, The history of anatomy and surgery. He published about thirty books and nearly 1000 articles.
; List of works devoted to Asian medicine

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