Colonial madness :: psychiatry in French North Africa /

Nineteenth-century French writers and travelers imagined Muslim colonies in North Africa to be realms of savage violence, lurid sexuality, and primitive madness. Colonial Madness traces the genealogy and development of this idea from the beginnings of colonial expansion to the present, revealing the...

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1. Verfasser: Keller, Richard C. (Richard Charles), 1969-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007.
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Zusammenfassung:Nineteenth-century French writers and travelers imagined Muslim colonies in North Africa to be realms of savage violence, lurid sexuality, and primitive madness. Colonial Madness traces the genealogy and development of this idea from the beginnings of colonial expansion to the present, revealing the ways in which psychiatry has been at once a weapon in the arsenal of colonial racism, an innovative branch of medical science, and a mechanism for negotiating the meaning of difference for republican citizenship. Drawing from extensive archival research and fieldwork in France and North Africa, Ric.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 294 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-285) and index.
ISBN:9780226429779
0226429776
1281957259
9781281957252
9786611957254
6611957251

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