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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798523206719 |
Table of Contents:
- Pinel in the Maghreb : liberation and confinement in a landscape of sickness
- Shaping colonial psychiatry : geographies of innovation and economies of care
- Spaces of experimentation, sites of contestation : doctors, patients, and treatments
- Between clinical and useful knowledge : race, ethnicity, and the conquest of the primitive
- Violence, resistance, and the poetics of suffering : colonial madness between Frantz Fanon and Kateb Yacine
- Underdevelopment, migration, and dislocation : postcolonial histories of colonial psychiatry.
