Stories, suffering, and the state : the heat wave and narratives of disaster -- Anecdotal life : isolation, vulnerability, and social marginalization -- Place matters : mortality, space, and urban form -- Vulnerability and the political imagination : constructing old age in postwar France -- Counting the dead : risk and the limits of epidemiology
Summary
Richard C. Keller is professor in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and editor of Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties
