Medicine and the saints
Amster, Ellen J., 1970-
Medicine and the saints science, Islam, and the colonial encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956 / [electronic resource] : Ellen J. Amster ; foreword by Rajae El Aoued. - 1st ed. - Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (350 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Frederic 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.
9780292745452 0292745451
Muslim saints--Cult--Morocco.
Sufism--History.--Morocco
Islam and science--History.
Health--Religious aspects--Islam.
Medicine--History.--Morocco
Morocco--Colonization--History.
Electronic books.
R653.M8 / A47 2013
610.964
Medicine and the saints science, Islam, and the colonial encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956 / [electronic resource] : Ellen J. Amster ; foreword by Rajae El Aoued. - 1st ed. - Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (350 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Frederic 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.
9780292745452 0292745451
Muslim saints--Cult--Morocco.
Sufism--History.--Morocco
Islam and science--History.
Health--Religious aspects--Islam.
Medicine--History.--Morocco
Morocco--Colonization--History.
Electronic books.
R653.M8 / A47 2013
610.964