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Colonial madness : psychiatry in French North Africa /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 294 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-285) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226429779 0226429776 1281957259 9781281957252 9786611957254 6611957251 |