Dr Martin Robert

My research deals with 19th-century medical education in Canada and the British Empire. I have a strong interest in death studies as well. Indeed I examine how new modes of body disposal, such as cremation and human dissection, shaped the medical profession during the 19th century. My postdoctoral research analyzes how a European-type medical education was established in Canada and India after the integration of those territories into the British Empire, between 1763 and 1845.