Colonial madness : psychiatry in French North Africa /

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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 Madness traces the genealogy and development of this idea from the beginnings of colonial expansion to the present, revealing the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Keller, Richard C. (Richard Charles), 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Psychiatry > Africa, North > History.
Psychoanalysis and colonialism > Africa, North > History.
Psychiatry > history
Colonialism > history
Psychoanalysis > history
Psychanalyse et colonialisme > Afrique du Nord > Histoire.
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.
France > Colonies > Africa, North > France > History.
Africa, North.
Africa, Northern
France
Afrique du Nord.
North Africa
Noord-Afrika.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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