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The Administration of Sickness

Medicine and Ethics in Nineteenth-Century Algeria

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • William Gallois
    Pages 1-28

  3. On the Idea of Medical Imperialism

    • William Gallois
    Pages 29-65

  4. On Humanitarian Desire

    • William Gallois
    Pages 66-92

  5. On Extermination

    • William Gallois
    Pages 93-134

  6. On Attendance to Suffering and Demographic Collapse

    • William Gallois
    Pages 135-184

  7. On the Just and Sovereign Testimony of Abdel Kader ben Zahra

    • William Gallois
    Pages 185-196

  8. On Injustice and the Disavowal of Autonomy

    • William Gallois
    Pages 197-214

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 215-262
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About this book

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.

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'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

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Administration of Sickness

  • Book Subtitle: Medicine and Ethics in Nineteenth-Century Algeria

  • Authors: William Gallois

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582606

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-50043-3Published: 24 September 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-35262-3Published: 01 January 2008

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-58260-6Published: 24 September 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 262

  • Topics: History of Science, Asian History, History of France, African History, European History, Modern History

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