Colonial madness : psychiatry in French North Africa / Richard C. Keller.

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2007], ©2007.

xi, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p.257-285) and index.

Pinel in the Maghreb : liberation and confinement in a landscape of sickness -- Shaping colonial psychiatry : geographies of innovation and economies of care -- Spaces of experimentation, sites of contestation : doctors, patients, and treatments -- Between clinical and useful knowledge : race, ethnicity, and the conquest of the primitive -- Violence, resistance, and the poetics of suffering : colonial madness between Frantz Fanon and Kateb Yacine -- Underdevelopment, migration, and dislocation : postcolonial histories of colonial psychiatry.