William Gallois

Broschiertes Buch

The Administration of Sickness

Medicine and Ethics in Nineteenth-Century Algeria

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• 2008 edition
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 347g
• ISBN-13: 9781349352623
• ISBN-10: 1349352624
• Artikelnr.: 45076190

Rezensionen

'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