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"This book is a significant contribution to the field with much new information and original archival research...It adds to the study of gender and empire, showing how the colonial authorities manipulated the health and well-being of indigenous women for their political interests...It will be well received by scholars interested in the history of the Maghrib and Middle East, Islamic medicine, Sufism, French empire, and gender, health, and empire."
(Nancy Gallagher, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara)
This is a dazzlingly good book. Amster takes us on a bewildering tour of medicine and public health in colonial Morocco in a pioneering study...As opposed to those who would find in colonial medicine a demon of oppression, or those who would use it to excuse colonial excesses, Amster has produced a nuanced study that opens an important window on the enormous complexity of medicine and public health as a staging area for the colonial encounter.
(Richard Keller, Associate Professor, Department of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"The history of North Africa is often severed from the history of sub-Saharan Africa...that this seemed so familiar serves as a testament to Amster's ability to meld Islamic studies with the methodological approaches and insights of Africanist historians. Her work provides a model for future studies and will open a dialogue between sets of scholars who do not speak to each other..."
(Neil Kodesh, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Religion and Culture Web Forum, Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion, University of Chicago)
"The 'positive way of knowing' that Amster describes...touches our work as scholars of religious worlds...Rehabilitating the appreciation of imaginations and epistemologies no longer in the vogue requires empathetic and evocative narration....Ellen Amster's
Medicine and the Saints is an important and impressive addition to the tradition of scholarship that highlights the intertwining of Islamic intellectual and social history."
(Shahzad Bashir, Stanford University, Religion and Culture Web Forum, Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion, University of Chicago)
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This first book from an exciting new figure in the field of Islamic medical history offers a fresh look at how the Moroccan ‘body’ became the site for competing influences leading to a political and scientific modernity. The clear prose, creative use of sources, and historical accuracy are exemplary. Nor will the reader be bored; the narrative is full of twists, turns, and unexpected surprises that engage the mind and stimulate the imagination, regardless of one’s disciplinary orientation. (Susan Gilson Miller, Professor of History, UC Davis, and author of A History of Modern Morocco, 1830–2000)
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- Hardcover: 350 pages
- Publisher: University of Texas Press; 1 edition (August 15, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0292745443
- ISBN-13: 978-0292745445
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