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Author:
Keller, Richard C. (Richard Charles), 1969- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002151135
Title:
Colonial madness : psychiatry in French North Africa / Richard C. Keller.
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
xi, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Subject:
Psychiatry--Africa, North--History.
France--History.--Africa, North--History.
Psychoanalysis and colonialism--Africa, North--History.
Psychiatry--history.
Colonialism--history.
Psychoanalysis--history.
Africa, Northern.
France.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-285) and index.
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
0226429733
9780226429731
0226429725
9780226429724
OCLC:
(OCoLC)71006710
LCCN:
2006026923
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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