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'', XIII° Série. Tome 10 fascicule 2, 1983. .) was a French physician (surgeon and anatomist), historian of medicine and anthropologist, long in post in Indochina, dean of several faculties of medicine (

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, Paris), rector of the

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, a pioneer in the history of medicine.Table ronde consacrée au recteur Pierre Huard (1901-1983)
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Biography

Born in

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, where his father was the director of customs (a native of Lorraine), Pierre Huard studied at the École de santé navale (Brest and Bordeaux)Figures de la médecine chinoise et de l'acupuncture en occident > Huard
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French Indochina French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China), officially known as the Indochinese Union and after 1941 as the Indochinese Federation, was a group of French dependent territories in Southeast Asia from 1887 to 1954. It was initial ...

. He returned to France in 1936 to pass the (anatomy section), 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

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, he was a delegate of the French High Command and the

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after the Battle of Diên Biên Phu (1954) 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 (1955–1963) then at that of Paris (1967-1973). From 1964 to 1966, he was Rector of the University of Abidjan, then study director at the

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(1966-1973). From 1970 to 1979, he was director (dean) of the of the

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. 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 (1977). He was president of the "Société française d'histoire de la médecine". He also was a member of the

In 1967, he was awarded the Prix Broquette-Gonin for his book ''Mille ans de chirurgie (Ve–XVe)''.

Bibliography

Works by Pierre Huard

The publications of Pierre Huard, in addition to those of a purely medical nature (surgery and tropical medicine), mainly concern the history of medicine, surgery and life sciences, the history of science in Vietnam, Japanese and

traditional Chinese medicine Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an alternative medicine, alternative medical practice drawn from traditional medicine in China. A large share of its claims are pseudoscientific, with the majority of treatments having no robust evidence ...

(with Ming Wong and Zensetsou Ohya), The history of anatomy and surgery (with Mirko Grmek). He published about thirty books and nearly 1000 articles. ; List of works devoted to Asian medicin
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Articles on Pierre Huard

*''Pierre Huard (1901–1983)''. In: Revue d'histoire des sciences. 1983, volume 36 n° 3–4. ''Pierre Huard (1901–1983)''. In: Revue d'histoire des sciences. 1983, volume 36 n° 3-4
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Huard, Pierre 1901 births People from Bastia 1983 deaths French military doctors French orientalists French ethnologists French historians of science Academic staff of the École pratique des hautes études Winners of the Prix Broquette-Gonin (literature) Commanders of the Legion of Honour 20th-century French anthropologists