Medicine and the Saints : Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Amster, Ellen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sufismus
Heiler
Medizin
Sufism.
Muslim saints > Cult.
Medicine.
Islam and science.
Health > Religious aspects > Islam.
Colonization.
HISTORY > Africa > North.
MEDICAL > History.
Islam.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Medecine > Aspect religieux.
Saints musulmans > Culte > Maroc.
Soufisme > Maroc > Histoire.
Islam et sciences > Histoire.
Medecine > Maroc > Histoire.
History, 20th Century
History, 19th Century
Colonialism > history
Religion and Medicine
Islam
Delivery of Health Care > history
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Muslim saints > Cult > Morocco.
Sufism > Morocco > History.
Islam and science > History.
Medicine > Morocco > History.
Marokko.
Marokko
Morocco.
France
Morocco
Morocco > Colonization > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Frederic 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.

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