Medicine and the Saints : : Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956 / / Ellen J. Amster.
The colonial encounter between France and Morocco took place not only in the political realm but also in the realm of medicine. Because the body politic and the physical body are intimately linked, French efforts to colonize Morocco took place in and through the body. Starting from this original pre...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Colonial embodiments
- Chapter 1 Healing the body, healing the umma: sufi saints and god’s law in a corporeal city of virtue
- Chapter 2 Medicine and the mission Civilisatrice: a civilizing science and the french sociology of Islam in Algeria and morocco, 1830– 1912
- Chapter 3 The many deaths of dr. Émile Mauchamp: contested Sovereignties and body politics at the court of the sultans, 1877– 1912
- Chapter 4 Frédéric le play in morocco? the paradoxes of french hygiene and colonial association in the Moroccan city, 1912– 1937
- Chapter 5 Harem medicine and the sleeping child: law, traditional pharmacology, and the gender of medical authority
- Chapter 6 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index