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Medicine and the Saints
  • Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956
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  • By Ellen J. Amster
  • 2013
  • Published by: University of Texas Press
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Exploring the colonial encounter between France and Morocco as a process of embodiment, and the Muslim body as the place of resistance to the state, this book provides the first history of medicine, health, disease, and the welfare state in Morocco.

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  1. Cover
  2. p. 1
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. 2-7
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Foreword
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xiii-xiv
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  1. Introduction. Colonial Embodiments
  2. pp. 1-16
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  1. 1. Healing the Body, Healing the Umma: Sufi Saints and God’s Law in a Corporeal City of Virtue
  2. pp. 17-50
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  1. 2. Medicine and the Mission Civilisatrice: A Civilizing Science and the French Sociology of Islam in Algeria and Morocco, 1830–1912
  2. pp. 51-81
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  1. 3. The Many Deaths of Dr. Émile Mauchamp: Contested Sovereignties and Body Politics at the Court of the Sultans, 1877–1912
  2. pp. 82-109
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  1. 4. Frédéric Le Play in Morocco? The Paradoxes of French Hygiene and Colonial Association in the Moroccan City, 1912–1937
  2. pp. 110-141
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  1. 5. Harem Medicine and the Sleeping Child: Law, Traditional Pharmacology, and the Gender of Medical Authority
  2. pp. 142-173
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  1. 6. A Midwife to Modernity: The Biopolitics of Colonial Welfare and Birthing a Scientific Moroccan Nation, 1936-1956
  2. pp. 174-208
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  1. Epilogue. Epistemologies Embodied: Islam, France, and the Postcolonial
  2. pp. 209-220
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 221-278
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 279-316
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 317-334
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