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

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Keller, Richard C. (Richard Charles), 1969-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Psychiatry--Africa, North--History.
Psychiatry.
Psychoanalysis and colonialism.
History.
Colonies.
France--Colonies--Africa, North--History.
France.
Psychoanalysis and colonialism--Africa, North--History.
Psychiatry--history.
Africa, Northern.
Colonialism--history.
Psychoanalysis--history.
North Africa.
Medical Subjects:
Psychiatry--history.
Africa, Northern.
France.
Colonialism--history.
Psychoanalysis--history.
Physical Description:
xi, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2007]
Contents:
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-285) and index.
ISBN:
9780226429724
0226429725
9780226429731
0226429733
OCLC:
71006710

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