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Author Keller, Richard C. (Richard Charles), 1969-

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

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 294 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-285) and index.
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.
Summary 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 in France and North Africa, Ric.
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Subject Psychiatry -- Africa, North -- History.
Psychiatry.
North Africa.
History.
France -- Colonies -- Africa, North -- History.
France.
Colonies.
Psychoanalysis and colonialism -- Africa, North -- History.
Psychoanalysis and colonialism.
Psychiatry -- history.
Colonialism -- history.
Psychoanalysis -- history.
Africa, Northern.
France.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Keller, Richard C. (Richard Charles), 1969- Colonial madness. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007 9780226429724 0226429725 (DLC) 2006026923 (OCoLC)71006710
ISBN 9780226429779 (electronic book)
0226429776 (electronic book)
1281957259
9781281957252
9780226429724 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0226429725 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780226429731 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0226429733 (paperback ; alkaline paper)