Doctoring the bled: Medical auxiliaries and the administration of rural life in colonial Algeria, 1904-1954
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[Thesis]
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Hannah-Louise Clark
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Guenther, Katja
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Princeton University
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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377
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Ragab, Ahmed; Schayegh, Cyrus; Wailoo, Keith A.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-28725-7
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Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
History of Science
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Princeton University
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2014
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
North African Studies; Modern history; Science history
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Social sciences;Algeria;Colonialism;Islam;Medicine;Race;Rural history