les moralistes médicaux

 McGill/UdeM « Post-Colonial Perspectives in the History of Medicine/ Histoire de la médecine : perspectives post-coloniales ».

 mardi 22 janvier de 15h à 16h30 

 Medical Moralists: French Doctors and the Anti-Alcohol Campaigns in Africa, 1890-1930

Dr Deborah Neill (York University, Canada)

 Between the late 1880s and 1914, many colonial reformers came together to protest the manufacture, sale and distribution of high-alcohol content spirit to Africans. Among the reformers who participated in the colonial anti-liquor campaigns were a small group of highly influential physicians and scientists who provided key medical rationales for restricting alcohol sales to Africans. My paper explores the anti-alcohol movement, the participation of physicians (particularly from France), and how medical views contributed to the shape of moral reform movements and temperance activism in the colonies in the period leading up to the First World War. 

Lieu: Salle de séminaire, Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University, 1130 Pine Ave West, Montreal (à l’ouest de Peel).