Colonial madness psychiatry in French North Africa /

Main Author: Keller, Richard C. 1969-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10266076
Table of 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.