Yves Ternon (; born 1932 in

Saint-Mandé Saint-Mandé () is a high-end Communes of France, commune of the Val-de-Marne Departments of France, department in Île-de-France in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, center of Paris. It is one of the sm ...

) is a French physician and

medical historian The medical history, case history, or anamnesis (from Greek: ἀνά, ''aná'', "open", and μνήσις, ''mnesis'', "memory") of a patient is information gained by a physician by asking specific questions, either to the patient or to other peo ...

, as well as an author of historical books about the

Jewish Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

and the

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was ...

. He is professor of the

history of medicine The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies. More than just histo ...

at University Paris IV Sorbonne. He is also an active member of ''

Doctors Without Borders Doctor or The Doctor may refer to: Personal titles * Doctor (title), the holder of an accredited academic degree * A medical practitioner, including: ** Physician ** Surgeon ** Dentist ** Veterinary physician ** Optometrist *Other roles ** ...

'' organization.

Books

* Histoire de la médecine SS (with Socrate Helman), Paris, Casterman, 1969 * Le Massacre des aliénés (with Socrate Helman), Paris, Casterman, 1971 * Les médecins allemands et le national-socialisme (with Socrate Helman), Paris, Casterman, 1973 * Les Arméniens. Histoire d'un génocide, Paris, Seuil, 1977 and 1996 * La Cause Arménienne, Paris, Seuil, 1983 * 1917-1921, Makhno, Brussels, Complexe, 1987. * Enquête sur la négation d'un génocide, Marseilles, Parenthèses, 1989 * Raspoutine, une tragédie russe, Brussels, Complexe, 1991 and Brussels, André Versaille, 2011 * L’État criminel. Les génocides au XXe siècle, Paris, Seuil, 1995. * Du négationnisme. Mémoire et tabou, Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 1999 * L’innocence des victimes : regard sur les génocides du XXe siècle, Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 2001. * Empire ottoman. Le déclin, la chute, l’effacement, Paris, Éditions du Félin et Éditions Michel de Maule, 2002 * 1915, le génocide des Arméniens (with Gérard Chaliand), Brusells, Complexe, 2006 (5e édition revue et augmentée) * Éclats de Voix. Recueils de textes 1974-2005, Paris, Éditions du félin (Poche), 2006 * Mardin 1915: Anatomie pathologique d’une destruction, Paris, Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 2007 * Guerres et génocides au XXe siècle, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2007 * 7, rue de Chelles - Pour ce que nous avons tous été enfants..., Paris, Éditions du félin, 2009.

External links

Article for Le Monde

Biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ternon, Yves 20th-century French historians 21st-century French historians Historians of the Armenian genocide Historians of the Holocaust Academic staff of the University of Paris French surgeons French medical writers People from Saint-Mandé 1932 births Living people