Background
Emch-Dériaz, Antoinette Suzanne was born on November 9, 1935 in Geneva. Daughter of Louis Georges and Renée Gabrielle (Bonnet) Dériaz. came to the United States, 1964.
(Trained in Montpellier, friend of the Philosophes, Tissot...)
Trained in Montpellier, friend of the Philosophes, Tissot (1728-1797) published almost two dozen medical books which were widely read and translated during his lifetime. The best known are Onanisme and Avis au peuple. He also left numerous manuscripts on different subjects of medicine. This biography presents a comprehensive study of the life and works (unpublished as well as published) of Tissot against the backdrop of the Era of the Encyclopédie and within the context of Tissot's Calvinist, French speaking Swiss milieu.
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Emch-Dériaz, Antoinette Suzanne was born on November 9, 1935 in Geneva. Daughter of Louis Georges and Renée Gabrielle (Bonnet) Dériaz. came to the United States, 1964.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Rochester, New York, 1984.
Technical assistant American Institute of Physics, New York City, 1968-1970. Visiting scholar University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1981. Research associate University Rochester, 1984.
Assistant professor University Mississippi, Oxford, 1985-1992. Visiting associate professor University Florida, Gainesville, 1992—2004, professor honours program, 2004—2008. Visiting scholar University Goettingen, Germany, 1985, Wellcome Institute, London, 1994, University Vienna, 1994.
(Trained in Montpellier, friend of the Philosophes, Tissot...)
Member American History Association, American Association for History Medicine, American Society 18th-Century Studies.
Married Gérard Gustav Emch, July 25, 1959. Children: Florence Christiane, René-Didier Guillaume.