LEADER 04260nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910818249203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-292-74545-1 024 7 $a10.7560/745445 035 $a(CKB)2670000000368613 035 $a(EBL)3443673 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000886358 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11464531 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000886358 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10816837 035 $a(PQKB)10637290 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443673 035 $a(OCoLC)844923102 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27999 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443673 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10713625 035 $a(DE-B1597)588718 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292745452 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000368613 100 $a20111102d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMedicine and the saints $escience, Islam, and the colonial encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956 /$fEllen J. Amster; foreword by Rajae El Aoued 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin, TX $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (351 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-292-74544-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. E?mile 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. 330 $aThe colonial encounter between France and Morocco took place not only in the political realm but also in the realm of medicine. Because the body politic and the physical body are intimately linked, French efforts to colonize Morocco took place in and through the body. Starting from this original premise, Medicine and the Saints traces a history of colonial embodiment in Morocco through a series of medical encounters between the Islamic sultanate of Morocco and the Republic of France from 1877 to 1956. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources in both French and Arabic, Ellen Amster investigates the positivist ambitions of French colonial doctors, sociologists, philologists, and historians; the social history of the encounters and transformations occasioned by French medical interventions; and the ways in which Moroccan nationalists ultimately appropriated a French model of modernity to invent the independent nation-state. Each chapter of the book addresses a different problem in the history of medicine: international espionage and a doctor?s murder; disease and revolt in Moroccan cities; a battle for authority between doctors and Muslim midwives; and the search for national identity in the welfare state. This research reveals how Moroccans ingested and digested French science and used it to create a nationalist movement and Islamist politics, and to understand disease and health. In the colonial encounter, the Muslim body became a seat of subjectivity, the place from which individuals contested and redefined the political. 606 $aMedicine$zMorocco$xHistory 606 $aHealth$xReligious aspects$xIslam 606 $aIslam and science$xHistory 607 $aMorocco$xColonization$xHistory 615 0$aMedicine$xHistory. 615 0$aHealth$xReligious aspects$xIslam. 615 0$aIslam and science$xHistory. 676 $a610.964 700 $aAmster$b Ellen J.$f1970-$01592937 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818249203321 996 $aMedicine and the saints$93912823 997 $aUNINA