Research: History of medicine; history of disease; retrospective diagnosis; historical approaches to infection; disease ecology.
For more information please see:
https://www.fp.ulaval.ca/notre-faculte/repertoire-du-personnel/pierre-olivier-methot
https://ulaval.academia.edu/PierreOlivierMéthot
Relevant publications include:
Vital Norms: Canguilhem's The Normal and the Pathological in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Pierre-Olivier Méthot, with the collaboration of Jonathan Sholl, Hermann, Paris, 2020, 528 p.
Médecine, science, histoire : le legs de Mirko Grmek, sous la direction de Pierre-Olivier Méthot, Éditions Matériologiques, Paris, 2019, 282 p.
Mirko D. Grmek, Pathological Realities. Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History, edited, translated and with an Introduction by Pierre-Olivier Méthot, foreword by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Fordham University Press, New York, 2019, 261 p.
'Microbes, networks, knowledge: Disease ecology and emerging infections in the time of the Covid-19' (avec Mark Honigsbaum), History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2020, 42(3) :https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-020-00318-x.
'"Birth, life, and death of infectious diseases": Charles Nicolle (1966-1936) and the invention of medical ecology in France', History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2019, 41(2).
'Reconciling Pasteur and Darwin to control infectious diseases' (avec Samuel Alizon), PLoS Biology 16(1) : e2003815. PDF
'Ecology and infection: Studying host-parasites interactions at the Interface of biology and medicine' (avec Rachel Mason Dentinger), Journal of the History of Biology, 2016, 49(2) : 231-240 .
'Bacterial transformation and the origins of epidemics in the interwar period: The epidemiological significance of Fred Griffith’s "transforming experiment"', Journal of the History of Biology, 2016, 49(2) : 311-348.