Medicine and the saints [[electronic resource] ] : science, Islam, and the colonial encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956 / / Ellen J. Amster; foreword by Rajae El Aoued

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463062003321
• Autore: Amster Ellen J. <1970->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Austin, TX, : University of Texas Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-292-74545-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (351 p.)
• Disciplina: 610.964
• Soggetti: Medicine - Morocco - History; Health - Religious aspects - Islam; Islam and science - History; Electronic books.; Morocco Colonization History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Colonial embodiments -- Healing the body, healing the umma: Sufi saints and God's law in a corporeal city of virtue -- Medicine and the mission civilisatrice: a civilizing science and the French sociology of Islam in Algeria and Morocco, 1830-1912 -- The many deaths of Dr. Émile Mauchamp: contested sovereignties and body politics at the court of the sultans, 1877-1912 -- Frederic Le Play in Morocco? the paradoxes of French hygiene and colonial association in the Moroccan city, 1912-1937 -- Harem medicine and the sleeping child: law, traditional pharmacology, and the gender of medical authority -- A midwife to modernity: the biopolitics of colonial welfare and birthing a scientific Moroccan nation, 1936-1956 -- Epilogue. Epistemologies embodied: Islam, France, and the postcolonial.