Colonial madness psychiatry in French North Africa / Richard C. Keller.

Author/creator Keller, Richard C., 1969-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press,
Descriptionxi, 294 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
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Subjects
Psychiatry--Africa, North. --History.
Psychoanalysis and colonialism--Africa, North. --History.
Psychiatry--history. --Africa, Northern.
Psychiatry--history. --France.
Colonialism--history. --Africa, Northern.
Colonialism--history. --France.
Psychoanalysis--history. --Africa, Northern.
Psychoanalysis--history. --France.
France--Colonies. --Africa. --History.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p.257-285) and index.
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LCCN 2006026923
ISBN9780226429724 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226429725 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780226429731 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0226429733 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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