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Keller, Richard C. 1969-

Colonial madness psychiatry in French North Africa / [electronic resource] : Richard C. Keller. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007. - xi, 294 p. : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references (p.257-285) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Psychiatry--History.--Africa, North
Psychoanalysis and colonialism--History.--Africa, North

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
France--Colonies--History.--Africa, North

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: RC451.A42 / K45 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 616.89/00961