December 2021 issue of RHA co-edited with Oxford colleague Prof. Erica Charters

Contents

Editorial

Professor Walter Bruyère-Ostells p.1-2

DOSSIER

Scientific introduction

Érica Charters, Benoît Pouget p.3-6

Preventing and containing epidemics on board French warships in the 18th century,

Guillaume Linte p.7-17

Mosquitoes, fleas and iron: a health history of the siege of Mantua (1796-1797)

Paul-Arthur Tortosa p.18-27

Epidemics, evacuation routes and the involvement of civil society in the Napoleonic Wars (1805-1813)

Nebiha Guiga p.28-37

Military medical evacuations as a general public health issue: a study of typhus epidemics in south-west France under the First Empire (1808-1814)

Thomas Ramonda p.38-50

Typhus in the Army of the East: managing an epidemic and reconstructing its course in the context of a medical repatriation to the Mediterranean (March 1856-July 1856)

Clémence Gavalda p.51-60

A morbid impasse? The weight of the epidemic factor in the failure of the Franco-Spanish expeditionary corps in Tourane (Đà Nẵng), 1858-1860

Sunny Le Galloudec p.61-76

Conquering a pathogenic Sudan. The place of the epidemiological factor in the emergence of the Black Force discourse (1879-1899)

Jean-Loup Hautefaye p.77-89

ARCHIVES

Presentation of the lecture by the Chief Medical Officer, Hyacinthe Vincent, by Major Laurent López and François Royal p.90-134

READERS' PRIZE 2021

Interview with Michel Goya, winner of the 2021 SHD Readers' Prize, by Lieutenant Constance Courrèges d'Agnos p.135-136

READINGS p.137-142

TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS p.143

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