Arthur Bordier

Arthur Bordier (3 May 1841 – 17 February 1910) was a French anthropologist, physician, medical geographer and founder of the Dauphiné Society of Ethnology and Anthropology.

Biography

Arthur Bordier was born in Saint-Calais. He studied in Paris and received his doctorate in medicine in June 1868 and became head of clinic at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris. He was a military doctor during the 1870 war.

In 1878, Bordier was appointed to the new chair of medical geography at the Paris School of Anthropology (founded by Paul Broca), a chair he held until 1895.

Bordier was director of the Preparatory School of Medicine and Pharmacy in Grenoble from 1894 until his death. In this capacity, he recruited Hippolyte Müller as librarian. At the same time, in 1902, he became director of the municipal hygiene service and founded the Dauphiné Society of Ethnology and Anthropology (Grenoble, 1894), of which he was secretary general until his death, also organizing the very first congress of the French Association for the Advancement of Science (1885).

He was made a knight of the Legion of Honor on February 4, 1880.

He died in Grenoble and was buried in the Saint Roch Cemetery.

See also

• Anatole Roujou
• Isaak Grigorjewitsch Orschanski

Works

• La médecine à Grenoble, notes pour servir à l'histoire de l'Ecole de médecine et de pharmacie (1846)
• "Mémoire sur l'épidémie cholérique de 1866 à l'hôpital Beaujon," Archives générales de médecine (février 1867)
• Des nerfs vaso-moteurs ganglionnaires, anatomie, physiologie, pathologie, thérapeutique (1868)
• "De l'Emploi du sphygmographe dans l'étude des agents thérapeutiques," Bulletin général de thérapeutique (15 février 1868)
• "De la Glycosurie dans la convalescence des maladies aiguës," Archives générales de médecine (août 1868)
• "De l'Élimination des médicaments," Bulletin de thérapeutique médicale et chirurgicale (30 janvier 1873)
• "Rapport de la commission nommée par la Société pour étudier les Esquimaux du Jardin d'acclimatation," Bulletins de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris (2e série, 1877)
• "Instructions pour l'île de Madagascar," Bulletins de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris (2e série, 1878)
• "Étude anthropologique sur une série de crânes d'assassins," Revue d'anthropologie (1879)
• "Japonais et Malais," Revue d'anthropologie (1881)
• La Colonisation scientifique et les colonies françaises (1884)
• La Géographie médicale (1884)
• La vie des sociétés (1887)
• Pathologie comparée de l'homme et des êtres organisés (1889)
• "Des Mutilations ethniques," Annales de l'enseignement supérieur de Grenoble (juin 1893)

References

• Barrett, Frank A. (2000). Disease and Geography: The History of an Idea. Toronto: York University-Atkinson College.
• Blanckaert, C. (1994) "Des Sauvages en Pays Civilisé. L'Anthropologie des Criminels (1850–1900)." In L. Mucchielli, ed., Histoire de la Criminologie en France. Paris: L'Harmattan, pp. 55–88.
• Rupke, Nicolaas A. (2000). Medical Geography in Historical Perspective. London: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL.

External links

• Works by Arthur Bordier at Gallica
• Works by Arthur Bordier at Persée
• Medallion of Arthur Bordier