Medicine and the saints
Subtitle: science, Islam, and the colonial encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956
By: Ellen J. Amster ; foreword by Rajae El Aoued
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Austin, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780292745445
Subjects: Medicine; Colonization; Sufism; Islam and science; Health; Cult; Muslim saints; Islam; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-395) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Colonial embodiments; title: Healing the body, healing the umma: Sufi saints and God's law in a corporeal city of virtue; title: Medicine and the mission civilisatrice: a civilizing science and the French sociology of Islam in Algeria and Morocco, 1830-1912; title: The many deaths of Dr. Émile Mauchamp: contested sovereignties and body politics at the court of the sultans, 1877-1912; title: Frédéric Le Play in Morocco? the paradoxes of French hygiene and colonial association in the Moroccan city, 1912-1937; title: Harem medicine and the sleeping child: law, traditional pharmacology, and the gender of medical authority; title: A midwife to modernity: the biopolitics of colonial welfare and birthing a scientific Moroccan nation, 1936-1956; title: Epilogue. Epistemologies embodied: Islam, France, and the postcolonial.