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

• Autore: Amster Ellen J. <1970->
• Pubblicazione: Austin, TX, : University of Texas Press, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (351 p.)
• Disciplina: 610.964
• Soggetto topico: Medicine - Morocco - History; Health - Religious aspects - Islam; Islam and science - History
• Soggetto geografico: Morocco Colonization History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Medicine and the saints
• ISBN: 0-292-74545-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463062003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II