Medicine and the saints science, Islam, and the colonial encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956 / Ellen J. Amster ; foreword by Rajae El Aoued.
| Author/creator | Amster, Ellen |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, |
| Description | xiv, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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 -- 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-395) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012046686 |
| ISBN | 9780292745445 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |