Medicine and the saints : science, Islam, and the colonial encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956 /
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| Author / Creator: | Amster, Ellen, author. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2013. |
| Description: | 1 online resource |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12661983 |
Table of 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.