Doctoring the bled: Medical auxiliaries and the administration of rural life in colonial Algeria, 1904-1954
[Thesis]
Hannah-Louise Clark
Guenther, Katja
Princeton University
2014
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Committee members: Ragab, Ahmed; Schayegh, Cyrus; Wailoo, Keith A.
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-28725-7
Ph.D.
History of Science
Princeton University
2014
This dissertation examines the professional and personal predicaments experienced by twentieth-century Algerian auxiliaires médicaux and adjoints techniques de la Santé publique. Both cadres comprised Muslim men who were recruited by the French colonial state to provide a limited form of Republican welfare in the Algerian countryside (the bled). Departing from doctor-centred histories, I interrogate official narratives to uncover how state medicine and hygiene functioned on the ground.
North African Studies; Modern history; Science history
Social sciences;Algeria;Colonialism;Islam;Medicine;Race;Rural history