The Administration of Sickness: Medicine and Ethics in Nineteenth-Century Algeria

by W. Gallois

Overview

This book is the first comprehensive study of French medicine in nineteenth-century Algeria. It argues that the medicalization was a priority for colonial regimes, but this goal was thwarted by ineffectual French medicine, institutional rivalries, and the manner in which medicine became a focus for the resistance of French domination and rule.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230500433
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/24/2008
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

WILLIAM GALLOIS is a Reader in History at Roehampton University, UK, having previously worked at SOAS, the American University of Sharjah and Queen Mary, University of London. He published Zola: The History of Capitalism in 1999 and Time, Religion and History in 2007.

Table of Contents

Introduction On the Idea of Medical Imperialism On Humanitarian Desire On Extermination On Attendance to Suffering and Demographic Collapse On the Just and Sovereign Testimony of Abdel Kader ben Zahra On Injustice and the Disavowal of Autonomy Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

'A welcome intervention in an emerging field...This is an engaged and sometimes provocative exploration of the moral and ideological structures of colonial medicine in Algeria. It invites us to examine medical practices and lived experiences so that we might see the tensions and fractures which lay at the heart of the idea of colonial medicine and a medicalized colonial society.' - Revue d'Histoire du XIXe Siecle

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