Yves Ternon

Yves Ternon (French: [tɛʁnɔ̃]; born 1932 in Saint-Mandé) is a French physician and medical historian, as well as an author of historical books about the Jewish Holocaust and the Armenian genocide. He is a Doctor of History and professor of the history of medicine at University Paris IV Sorbonne. He is also an active member of Doctors Without Borders organization.

Biography

Born in 1932, Yves Ternon first served as an intern at Paris hospitals (1955-1959) before becoming a senior resident at the Paris Faculty of Medicine.[1] He has been conducting research on the Jewish and Armenian genocides since 1965. Recognized as a specialist in the origins of crimes against humanity, he is the author of numerous historical works, including "The Armenians: History of a Genocide", "The Armenian Cause", "Inquiry into the Denial of a Genocide", and "Armenia 1900". He is a member of the international scientific committee of the Shoah Memorial and president of the scientific council for the centenary of the Armenian Genocide (April 2015).[2]

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.

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