France & Quebec, Canada

Martin Robert, France & Quebec, Canada

Martin Robert is a historian currently based at the University of Oxford, where he is a Research Fellow in the History of Medicine at the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology (OCHSMT), and Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College.

Martin has coauthored with Laura Tradii (University of Cambridge) the article ‘Do We Deny Death?’ (part I and part II) published in Mortality. He has also published on the advent of funeral cremation in Europe and Canada in Histoire sociale / Social History.

Martin’s monograph ‘La fabrique du corps médical. Dissections humaines et formation médicale dans le Québec du XIXe siècle’ [‘On the Fabric of the Medical Body. Human Dissections and Medical Education in 19th-century Quebec’] is under review at McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Martin says: Feel free to contact me about the history of death or medicine, anatomical dissections or cremation, or if you have any queries about death studies in France or Quebec.

Academic page: https://www.hsmt.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-martin-robert