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Colonial madness [[electronic resource] ] : psychiatry in French North Africa / / Richard C. Keller



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Autore: Keller Richard C (Richard Charles), <1969-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Colonial madness [[electronic resource] ] : psychiatry in French North Africa / / Richard C. Keller Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 p.)
Disciplina: 616.89/00961
Soggetto topico: Psychiatry - Africa, North - History
Psychoanalysis and colonialism - Africa, North - History
Soggetto geografico: France Colonies Africa, North History
Soggetto non controllato: colonialism, colonies, psychiatrist, psychiatry, mental health, wellness, france, french, europe, european, african, regional, academic, scholarly, research, 19th, century, writer, writing, author, travel, traveler, wanderlust, muslim, violence, sexuality, taboo, primitive, bias, geneaology, expansion, psychology, psychological, postcolonial
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p.257-285) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Colonial madness  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-226-42977-6
1-281-95725-9
9786611957254
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910782527503321
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