Colonial Madness Psychiatry in French North Africa

Name: Colonial Madness Psychiatry in French North Africa
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ISBN: 9780226429724

ISBN-10: 0226429725

ISBN-13: 9780226429724

Edition: 2007

Authors: Richard C. Keller

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Nineteenth-century French writers and travelers imagined Muslim colonies in North Africa to be realms of savage violence, lurid sexuality, and primitive madness.Colonial Madnesstraces 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, Richard Keller offers much more than a history of colonial psychology.Colonial Madnessexplores the…

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List price: $101.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.93" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Richard C. Keller is assistant professor of medical history and the history of science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.




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