Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North AfricaNineteenth-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 negotiating the meaning of difference for republican citizenship. |
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Liberation and Confi nement in a Landscape of Sickness | 19 |
Geographies of Innovation and Economies of Care | 47 |
Doctors Patients and Treatments | 83 |
Race Ethnicity and the Conquest of the Primitive | 121 |
Colonial Madness between Frantz Fanon and Kateb Yacine | 161 |