The Administration of Sickness: Medicine and Ethics in Nineteenth-century Algeria

[Al-khiyal]

The Administration of Sickness: Medicine and Ethics in Nineteenth-century Algeria by William Gallois (U.K.)

Publication date November 2008

This book studies the ethics of the French colonial mission to medicalize Algeria in the nineteenth century, with new research on the history of massacres, extermination, and the lives of Algerian doctors. It studies French colonialism in Algeria from an ethical approach. It includes new research on the history of massacres and extermination and new research on the lives of Algerian doctors in French colonial medicine. It is topical: History of relations between Europe and the Arab-Islamic world.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.

The Administration of Sickness: Medicine and Ethics in Nineteenth-century Algeria by William Gallois (U.S.A.)

Publication date January 6, 2009

[wgallois]

Dear Al-khiyal and other posters, great and really flattering to see details of my book posted here. The book should be out in November and I'd be glad to chat about it here, or to begin a discussion about Algeria in the nineteenth century now if that would be of interest. I'm now working on a project on violence in the nineteenth century and it'd be great to share ideas and pose questions here.
Cheers,
William