The Hidden Patients North African Women in French Colonial Psychiatry

• Päätekijä: Salouâ Studer, Nina (auth)
• Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen Kirjan osa
• Kieli: englanti
• Julkaistu: Köln 2015
• Sarja: Zürcher Beiträge zur Geschichtswissenschaft
• Aiheet: North Africa; c 1800 to c 1900; 20th century; African history; Colonialism & imperialism; Gender studies, gender groups; History of medicine; französische kolonialpsychiatrie; wissensgeschichte; history of knowledge; muslimische frauen in der psychiatrie; colonial psychiatry in maghreb; muslim women in psychiatry; kolonialpsychiatrie in maghreb; french colonial psychiatry; Algeria; France; Mental disorder; Paralysis
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This English-language study is dedicated to questions of gender research and the history of medicine in colonial North Africa. It shows that French psychiatrists described "normal" and "abnormal" behaviors of the colonized in the Maghreb and compared them to those of Europeans wh...