Colonial madness : psychiatry in French North Africa / / Richard C. Keller

• Autore: Keller Richard C (Richard Charles), <1969->
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• 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
• 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
• ISBN: 0-226-42977-6; 1-281-95725-9; 9786611957254
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814032903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II