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Benoît Pouget, "The Army of Pasteurians: Militarisation of Hygiene and Hybrid Disease Control Measures in Fernand Visbecq's 1919 Typhus Mission in French Algeria", Social History of Medicine, 7 November 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkae058 Abstract During mass demobilisation following the armistice of 11 November 1918, colonial troops gradually returned to their cantonments. Algeria hosted a military penal colony...

Benoît Pouget, "Medicalising dead bodies: the First Indochina War (1946-54)", Human Remains and Violence, Vol. 10, n°2, p.44-57. https://doi.org/10.7227/HRV.10.2.4 Abstract This article shows how the medicalisation of death in wartime can be seen as integral to a broader medicalisation of war that it both stems from and sustains. More specifically, it highlights the pivotal role...

Taline Garibian, Benoît Pouget, "Special issue introduction: war casualties and the production of knowledge", Human Remains and Violence, Vol. 10, No. 2, December 2024, pp.1-4. https://doi.org/10.7227/HRV.10.2.1 Link to the online article

Benoît Pouget, " On Medical Standardisation in Times of Scientific Uncertainty: The Management of Flu Epidemics by the French Military Medical Service After the World Pandemic (1920s-30s) ", Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, Vol. 10 n° 1-2, December 2024, pp. 383-401. https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2023.1403. Abstract Using the example of anti-influenza struggle during the 1920s and 1930s, this article asks how the...

Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Taline Garibian, Benoît Pouget, "Les exhumations, transferts et réinhumations de cadavres dans la France de la Libération", Revue historique des armées, n°316, 1er trimestre 2025, pp.4-8. A quarterly scientific journal, the Revue historique des armées is the Ministry of Defence's journal of history, as well as the communication vehicle for the Service historique des...