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Medicine and the saints : science, Islam, and the colonial encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956 / Ellen J. Amster ; foreword by Rajae El Aoued.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2013.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780292745452
  • 0292745451
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Medicine and the saints.DDC classification:
  • 610.964 23
LOC classification:
  • R653.M8 A47 2013eb
NLM classification:
  • 2013 H-671
  • WZ 70 HM5
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Contents:
Introduction : Colonial embodiments -- Healing the body, healing the umma : Sufi saints and God's law in a corporeal city of virtue -- Medicine and the mission civilisatrice : a civilizing science and the French sociology of Islam in Algeria and Morocco, 1830-1912 -- The many deaths of Dr. Émile Mauchamp : contested sovereignties and body politics at the court of the sultans, 1877-1912 -- Frédéric Le Play in Morocco? the paradoxes of French hygiene and colonial association in the Moroccan city, 1912-1937 -- Harem medicine and the sleeping child : law, traditional pharmacology, and the gender of medical authority -- 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.
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Introduction : Colonial embodiments -- Healing the body, healing the umma : Sufi saints and God's law in a corporeal city of virtue -- Medicine and the mission civilisatrice : a civilizing science and the French sociology of Islam in Algeria and Morocco, 1830-1912 -- The many deaths of Dr. Émile Mauchamp : contested sovereignties and body politics at the court of the sultans, 1877-1912 -- Frédéric Le Play in Morocco? the paradoxes of French hygiene and colonial association in the Moroccan city, 1912-1937 -- Harem medicine and the sleeping child : law, traditional pharmacology, and the gender of medical authority -- 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.

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