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9780226429731
Colonial Madness Psychiatry in French North Africa
by Keller, Richard C.
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- Comments: Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. <br> Nineteenth-century French writers and travelers imagined Muslim colonies in North Africa to be realms of savage violence, lurid sexuality, and primitive madness. Colonial Madness traces the genealogy and development of this idea from the beginnings of colonial expansion to the present, revealing the ways in which psychiatry has been at once a weapon in the arsenal of colonial racism, an innovative branch of medical science, and a mechanism for n
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- ISBN-13: 9780226429731
- ISBN: 0226429733
- Publication Date: 2007
- Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
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Richard Keller is assistant professor of medical history and the history of science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Keller, Richard C. is the author of 'Colonial Madness Psychiatry in French North Africa', published 2007 under ISBN 9780226429731 and ISBN 0226429733.
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