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Author Keller, Richard C. (Richard Charles), 1969-

Title Colonial madness [electronic resource] : psychiatry in French North Africa / Richard C. Keller.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xi, 294 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p.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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Psychiatry -- Africa, North -- History.
Psychoanalysis and colonialism -- Africa, North -- History.
France -- Colonies -- Africa, North -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780226429724 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226429725 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226429731 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226429733 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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