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

Title Colonial madness : psychiatry in French North Africa / Richard C. Keller
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 294 pages) : illustrations, maps
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-285) and index
Notes English
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Subject Psychiatry -- Africa, North -- History
Psychoanalysis and colonialism -- Africa, North -- History
Psychiatry -- history
Colonialism -- history
Psychoanalysis -- history
MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Clinical Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
French colonies
Psychiatry
Psychoanalysis and colonialism
Psychiatrie.
Franse koloniën.
Kolonialisme.
Nationale kenmerken.
Rassenvraagstuk.
SUBJECT France -- Colonies -- Africa, North -- France -- History
Africa, North. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001631
Africa, Northern https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000352
France https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005602
Subject North Africa
Noord-Afrika.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226429779
0226429776
1281957259
9781281957252
9786611957254
6611957251