LINTE Guillaume

Contact details

guillaume.linte@cnrs.fr

CNRS Junior Professor (CPJ MOBIMATHS), specialising in the history of health, the navy and colonisation

Functions

Member of l’Axe 5 du Mesopolhis

Membre du Comité scientifique des éditions BHMS (Lausanne)

Membre du Comité de rédaction de la revue Astrolabe (CRLV)

Academic work

Doctorat en Histoire, Université Paris-Est, 2019. Title of thesis : «Medicine and health of French transoceanic travellers in the modern era (XVIth century).e-XVIIIe century)».

Areas of research

History of health, science and technology

Naval and colonial medicine

Infectious diseases

History of epidemiology

Mathematical modelling

Medical missions in a colonial context

Scientific coordinator, programme manager

Scientific programmes

  • CPJ MOBIMATHS - Promoting interdisciplinarity between mathematics and social and human sciences around health issues
  • Human movements, maritime mobility and infectious risk modelling (17e-21e century) ; project funded by the ANR and the Amidex foundation as part of the MOBIMATHS CPJ (2025-2030)

Organisation of scientific events

  • (with Ali Alrifae) International workshop Neglected diseases and illnesses. (Post)colonial perspectives, University of Lausanne, 21 October 2025.
  • (with Dorine Rouiller) International conference «(In)habitabilities. Writing extreme environments from ocean expansion to space exploration», University of Neuchâtel, 13 & 14 March 2025.
  • (with Aude Fauvel and Pierre-Olivier Méthot) International seminar in medical humanities How to think about diseases over the long term? Regards et outils croisés d'un philosophe, d'un historien et d'une biologiste sur le diagnostic rétrospectif«, University of Lausanne, 18 December 2024.
  • International workshop «Epidemiology of syphilis and STIs: From venereal peril to HIV», University of Geneva, 16 & 17 October 2023.
  • iEH2 conference (Ethics, History and Humanities Institute). Guest: Samuel Coghe. Title: «Population Politics in the Tropics: Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola». University of Geneva, 8 May 2023.
  • (with M. Aballea, L. Assailly, B. Baylac-Paouly, L. Delmaire and P.-A. Tortosa) Symposium «Infectious diseases, policies and institutions (1945 to the present day)», at the XIVe Congress of the French Society for the History of Science and Technology, Bordeaux University, 19 & 21 April 2023.
  • Monthly web conferences of the SNSF Sinergia project Neverending infectious diseases between September 2020 and December 2022.
  • (with Laurence Toutous Trellu) International workshop Neglected infectious diseases: diagnosis and challenges, Geneva University Hospitals, 17 & 18 November 2022.
  • (with Francesca Arena) Panel «The nature of the pox: medical knowledge and practices in a colonial context (18e-20e centuries» to 6èmes Swiss History Days, Geneva, 29 June 2022.
  • (with Roberto Poma and Sofia Zuccol) Study day Hippocrates' mirrors. Medicine and otherness from Antiquity to the present day, Université Paris-Est Créteil, 26 May 2021.
  • (with Paul-Arthur Tortosa) Study day «The world's sickest place»: thinking about, inhabiting and designing pathogenic environments in Europe (16)e-21e centuries), University of Strasbourg, 10 December 2020.
  • (with Christian Bonah) International workshop Syphilis prevention and sexual health education (1900 to present), University of Strasbourg, 5 & 6 November 2020.
  • (with Gabriel Redon, Pauline Spychala and Marine Tesson) Study Day Individual trajectories beyond borders: exemplarity, exceptionality, representativeness, University of Paris-Est Créteil, 16 November 2018.

Productions

Publications

  • Naval hygiene and colonial medicine in France (XVIth century)e-XVIIIe century), Paris, Les Indes Savantes, 2023.
  • (with Christian Bonah and Alexandre Wenger) Endless infectious diseases. The case of syphilis as an example of prophylactic mobilisation-demobilisation (XXe-XXIe centuries), Geneva, Georg, 2022.

Project management in a peer-reviewed journal

  • Annals of Historical Demography, Epidemiology of syphilis and STIs: from venereal disease to HIV«, issue 148, 2024-2.
  • (with Francesca Arena) Swiss Journal of History, Ce que la colonisation fait à la médecine / Was die Kolonialisierung mit der Madizin macht«, 2024, vol. 74, no. 3.
  • (with Paul-Arthur Tortosa) Centaurus. Journal of the European Society for the History of Science, Special issue “Pathogenic Environments”, vol. 65, 2023, no. 1.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

  • «La nature du lieu que les Gens de Mer habitent“: Environnement maritime, hygiène navale et navigations intertropicales au XVIIIe century», Maritime History Review, 2025, n° 34.
  • «Santé en mer et médecine navale à l'heure du voyage transocéanique (XVIe-XVIIIe century)», Maritime history chronicle, 2025, n° 98.
  • (with Alexandre Wenger) « Venereal disease statistics in Romandy in the early twentieth century: the emergence of a public health problem», Annals of Historical Demography, No. 148, 2024-2, pp. 47-70.
  • «Syphilis and STIs. A history through figures», Annals of Historical Demography, No. 148 (2024/2), feature on «Syphilis and STIs», pp. 7-18.
  • «Exotic syphilis. How medicine turned syphilis into a ‘benign’ dermatological disease during colonisation (France, 1900-1940)», Swiss Journal of History, vol. 74, no. 3, 2024, pp. 317-333.
  • «Care, maternal welfare, and women's associations in French colonial Africa: L'Œuvre du Berceau indigène in Togo and Cameroon (1922-1935)», Dynamis. Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam, vol. 44, no. 1, 2024, pp. 77-102.
  • «The Salvation of the Seamen: Ventilation, Air Purification and Naval Hygiene in Early Modern France (c. 1670-1790)“, Centaurus. Journal of the European Society for the History of Science, vol. 65, no. 1, 2023, pp. 31-62
  • (with Paul-Arthur Tortosa) «The Most Unhealthy Spots in the World“: Thinking, Dwelling in and Shaping Pathogenic Environments”, Centaurus. Journal of the European Society for the History of Science, vol. 65, no. 1, 2023, pp. 9-30.
  • «Syphilis, whitening and French colonial medicine in sub-Saharan Africa during the interwar period», Medical History, 67(4), 2023, p. 307-323.
  • «Preventing and containing epidemics on board French warships in the 18th centurye century», Revue Historique des Armées, 303, 2021, pp. 7-17.
  • «The health of women and Creoles in French colonial America at the end of the 18th century.e century», Boletim Historiar, vol. 8 no. 1, 2021, p. 31-47.
  • «Skin colour in medical discourse», Eighteenth Century, No. 51, 2019, pp. 261-274.
  • «Medicine and the creolisation of bodies in the first French colonial empire», Historia Magistra. Rivista di storia critica, no. 30, 2019, p. 36-46.
  • " The “new humanities” in the Crónica de Guiné de Gomes Eanes de Zurara», Revista Portuguesa de História¸ n° 46, 2015, p. 15-34.

Chapters in a collective work

  • (with Floriane Morin) «La “Genève médicale” aux colonies: l'exemple du Cameroun», in Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps & Damiano Matasci (eds.),  (Post)colonial Geneva. The ambivalence of a Swiss and international city, Geneva, Georg, 2025, p. 58-78.
  • «Hot Climates and Disease. Early Modern European Views of Tropical Environments“, in Lori Jones (ed.), Disease and the Environment in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, Routledge, London & New York, 2022, p. 107-123.
  • «The “conquest of Guinea” according to Gomes Eanes de Zurara: a marginal crusade in the 15th centurye siècle», in Benjamin Weber (ed.), Crusades in Africa. Western expeditions to the African continent, XIIIe-XVIe century, Toulouse, Presses Universitaires du Midi, 2019, p. 194-214.
  • «Pratiques et enjeux de l'épreuve animale. L'exemple de la poudre antihémorragique de Peter Fowler», in Gisèle Séginger (ed.), Animalhumanity. Experimentation and fiction: animality at the heart of the living world, Marne-la-Vallée, LISAA, 2018, p. 77-87.
  • «The Voyage of Sieur Luillier to the Indies et autres sources de la Région Centre pour l'histoire de la médecine et de la santé des voyageurs», [online] seminar proceedings Health in the Centre Region in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Concetta Pennuto (ed.), 2018. [URL: https://sarc.univ-tours.fr/440/]

Entries in a dictionary or encyclopaedia

Interviews

  • (with Martin Robert and Shiori Nosaka) «“Medicine on a Global Scale”: Interview with Maureen Lux», History, Medicine and Health, vol, 27, 2025, pp. 97-104. [DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/1479s]
  • (with Martin Robert and Shiori Nosaka) «Medicine on a Global Scale“: Interview with Jaehwan Hyun”, History, medicine and health, vol, 27, 2025, p. 97-104. [DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/1479q]
  • (with Francesca Arena) «Interview with Laurence Monnais», Swiss Journal of History, The impact of colonisation on medicine«, vol. 74, no. 3, 2024, pp. 367-378.
  • (with Martin Robert and Shiori Nosaka) «Medicine on a global scale“: Interview with Nina Studer”, History, medicine and health, vol. 25, 2024, p. 199-207. [DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/1217m]

Reading reports

  • «Samuël Coghe (2022) - Population Politics in the Tropics: Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola». Journal of Contemporary African History, September 2024.
  • «Class Kirchhelle, Typhoid: The past, present, and future of an ancient disease, London, Scala Arts Pub, 2022, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 77, 2023.
  • «Yves Ardagna & Benoît Pouget (eds.), Syphilis. Crossed Itineraries in the Mediterranean and Beyond (XVIe-XXIe century), Presses Univ. de Provence, 2021, Bulletins and memoirs of the Paris Anthropological Society, 35(2), 2023.
  • «Safiatou Diallo, Health policies in Guinea. From colonisation to the beginning of the 21st centurye century, Paris, L'Harmattan, Coll. Études africaines, 2022, Canadian Journal of Health History, vol. 40, no. 2, 2023, pp. 394-396.
  • «Bouda Etemad, From Rousseau to Dunant. Colonisation and slavery as seen from Geneva ", Readings [On-line], Les comptes rendus. [22 November 2023].
  • «Roger Chartier, Maps and fictions (XVIe-XVIIIe century), Paris, Collège de France, 2022, Readings [Online], Reports. [18 July 2022]
  • «Janina Kehr, Spectres of tuberculosis. A disease from the past to the present, Rennes, PUR, 2021, History, medicine and health, No. 19, 2022, pp. 195-198.
  • «Delphine Peiretti-Courtis, Black bodies and white doctors. The Factory of Racial Prejudice, XIXe-XXe centuries, Paris, La Découverte, 2021, Readings [Online], Reports. [23 August 2021]
  • «Éric Morier-Genoud, Converting the emperor? Diary of the missionary and physician George-Louis Liengme in South-East Africa, 1893-1895, Lausanne, Antipodes, 2020, Readings [Online], Reports, [2 January 2021]
  • «Gilles Bertrand, Daniel Chartier, Alain Guyot, Marie Mossé and Anne-Elisabeth Spica (eds.), Illustrated journeys to cold countries (XVIe-XIXe century). From the invention of printing to the invention of photography, Blaise Pascal, 2020, Readings [Online], Reports. [August 17, 2020]
  • «Monique Debus-Kehr, I, Jean Joseph Reisser, Doctor of Medicine in Thann, 1750-1816. Critical study of a manuscript, Société savante d'Alsace, 2019, Alsace magazine, No. 146, 2020, pp. 401-402.
  • «David Gentilcore, Food and Health in Early Modern Europe. Diet, Medicine and Society, 1450-1800, London, Bloomsbury, 2016, Readings [Online], Proceedings. [3 May 2016]
  • «Vanezia Parlea, «Un Franc parmy les Arabes». The Chevalier d'Arvieux's oriental journey and discovery of the Other, Grenoble, 2015, Readings [Online], Proceedings. DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/lectures.19867

List of publications on HAL

Article in a magazine

Guillaume Linte. Care, maternal welfare, and women's associations in French colonial Africa: The Œuvre du Berceau indigène in Togo and Cameroon (1922-1935). Dynamis, 2024, 44 (1), pp.77-102. ⟨10.30827/dynamis.v44i1.30726⟩. ⟨hal-04651423⟩

Guillaume Linte. Exotic syphilis. How medicine turned syphilis into a «benign» dermatological disease during colonisation (France, 1900-1940). Revue Suisse d'Histoire - Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte, 2024, 74 (3), ⟨10.24894/2296-6013.00150⟩. ⟨hal-05033563⟩

Guillaume Linte. Syphilis, bleaching and French colonial medicine in sub-Saharan Africa during the interwar period. Medical History, 2023, 67 (4), pp.307-323. ⟨10.1017/mdh.2023.29⟩. ⟨hal-04651457⟩

Guillaume Linte. “The Salvation of the Seamen: Ventilation, Naval Hygiene, and French Overseas Expansion During the Early Modern Period (ca. 1670-1790). Centaurus, 2023, 65 (1), pp.31-62. ⟨10.1484/J.CNT.5.134131⟩. ⟨hal-04315817⟩

Guillaume Linte, Paul-Arthur Tortosa. “The Most Unhealthy Spots in the World: Thinking, Dwelling In, and Shaping Pathogenic Environments. Centaurus, 2023, 65 (1), pp.9-30. ⟨10.1484/J.CNT.5.134700⟩. ⟨hal-04320615⟩

Guillaume Linte. The health of women and "Créoles" in French colonial America at the end of the 18th century. Boletim historiar, 2021, 8 (2), pp.31-47. ⟨hal-04039920⟩

Guillaume Linte. Preventing and containing epidemics on board French warships in the eighteenth century. Revue Historique des Armées, 2021, 2 (303), pp.7-17. ⟨10.3917/rha.303.0007⟩. ⟨hal-04039724⟩

Guillaume Linte. Medicine and the creolisation of bodies in the first French colonial empire. Historia Magistra. Rivista di storia critica, 2019, 30, pp.36-46. ⟨hal-04039938⟩

Guillaume Linte. Skin colour in medical discourse (1730-1770). Dix-Huitième Siècle, 2019, n°51 (51), pp.261-274. ⟨10.3917/dhs.051.0261⟩. ⟨hal-04039471⟩

Guillaume Linte. The "new humanities" in Gomes Eanes de Zurara's Chronicle of Guinea. Revista Portuguesa de Historia, 2015, 46, pp.15-34. ⟨10.14195/0870-4147_46_1⟩. ⟨hal-04039616⟩

Publications

Guillaume Linte. Naval hygiene and medicine in the colonies in France (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle). Les Indes Savantes, 2023, 978-2-84654-645-4. ⟨hal-04315894⟩

Alexandre Wenger, Guillaume Linte, Christian Bonah. Neverending infectious diseases. Georg. 2022, 9782825712535. ⟨10.32551/georg.12986⟩. ⟨hal-04039589⟩

Book chapter

Guillaume Linte. “Hot Climates and Disease. Early Modern European Views of Tropical Environments. Disease and the Environment in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, 1, Routledge, pp.107-123, 2022, ⟨10.4324/9780429055478-9⟩. ⟨hal-04039700⟩

Guillaume Linte, Benjamin Weber. The “conquest of Guinea” according to Gomes Eanes de Zurara: a crusade on the margins in the 15th century? Crusades in Africa. Western expeditions to the African continent, 13th-16th century, 2019. ⟨hal-04039902⟩

Guillaume Linte. Practices and issues of animal testing. Animalhumanity. Experimentation and fiction: animality at the heart of the living, LISAA éditeur, pp.77-87, 2018. ⟨hal-04039871⟩