Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Colonial embodiments
  • Healing the body, healing the umma : Sufi saints and God's law in a corporeal city of virtue
  • Medicine and the mission civilisatrice : a civilizing science and the French sociology of Islam in Algeria and Morocco, 1830-1912
  • The many deaths of Dr. Émile Mauchamp : contested sovereignties and body politics at the court of the sultans, 1877-1912
  • Frédéric Le Play in Morocco? the paradoxes of French hygiene and colonial association in the Moroccan city, 1912-1937
  • Harem medicine and the sleeping child : law, traditional pharmacology, and the gender of medical authority
  • A midwife to modernity : the biopolitics of colonial welfare and birthing a scientific Moroccan nation, 1936-1956
  • Epilogue : Epistemologies embodied : Islam, France, and the postcolonial.