- B.M.Sc., University of Alberta (1975), with distinction
- M.D., University of Alberta (1977), with distinction
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Canada (1984)
- Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians (1985)
- Ph.D., University of London (2003)
- Emergency Medicine Specialist/Senior Consultant: Holy Cross Hospital. Calgary, Canada/ King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (1982-1999)
- Lecturer, University of London (2001-2003)
- Director: London Consortium Summer School @ Tate Modern (2001-2003)
- Francis Fund Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California San Francisco (2003-2005)
- Lecturer, Lancaster University (2005-2006)
- Samuel Hahnemann Professor in the History of Medicine, University of California San Francisco (2006- )
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Dr. Tercier has taught courses in departments of clinical medicine, history, sociology, art history, and cultural studies on topics including: resuscitative protocols, history of science and medicine, violence in the visual arts, cultural constructions of the body, research methods in the humanities, and the contemporary deathbed.
He has researched and published on medical approaches to death in the modern period, examining the history of resuscitative protocols and their influence on end of life care by exploring the relations between protocol and ritual, the origins of modern resuscitative techniques in drowning protocols, and the portrayal of resuscitation in the contemporary media. The resulting book, The Contemporary Deathbed: The Ultimate Rush, is a cultural history of the key therapeutic techniques of CPR: mouth-to-mouth ventilation, external-cardiac-compressions and defibrillation, examining their origins in the eighteenth century, strange development in the nineteenth, and consolidation in the twentieth; providing an analysis of CPR as a form of occult deathbed ritual. He has published a number of articles on death, ritual, and resuscitation: “Whiteout” an analysis of the construction of heroic death in the postwar film “Scott of the Antarctic”, “Out in the Cold” on the historical misappropriation of the hypothermic death; “From Aer to Air” tracing reconceptualizations of breath from the classical anima to the oxygenation of hemoglobin, and “Resuscitation in the Media” examining television’s role in perpetuating the hi-tech deathbed.
Presently, Dr. Tercier is working on the recent transformation of the post-mortem photograph into gallery art, examining this phenomenon in the light of recent feminist and queer theory reassessments of sexual pornography; American public health films of the 1920s, 30s and 40s and their relation to the New Deal; and a normative model of the process of manuscript peer review. |
