Richard C Keller
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 721833 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard C Keller |
| NOMBRES | Richard C |
| APELLIDO | Keller |
| FIRMA | KELLER R C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Camille Robcis, Disalienation
Taming Cannabis
Reviewed by: Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France by David A. Guba, Jr Richard C. Keller David A. Guba, Jr. Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France. Intoxicating Histories. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. x + 302 pp. $37.95 (978-0-2280-0120-1). Cannabis occupies a curious cultural and legal space in France. The nation has the highest rate of cannabis consumption in the European Uni…
The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France by Michael A. Osborne
Reviewed by: The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France by Michael A. Osborne Richard C. Keller Michael A. Osborne. The Emergence ofTropicalMedicine in France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. ix + 312 pp. 1ll. $50.00 ( 978-0-226-11452-1). For a literature that scarcely existed twenty-five years ago, the historiography of colonial science and medicine has flourished in the intervening period. As the field of postcolonial studies has …
Life After Biopolitics
Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine
If we have science, do we really need history? Or perhaps to put the question another way, do historians need to draw on molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience, and genetics to validate their craft? Steven Pinker certainly seems to think so, arguing that stratigraphy and other scientific borrowings have converted archaeology from “a branch of art history to a high-tech science,” with a concomitant “explanatory depth” (The New Republic, 6 Augus…
Between Clinical and Useful Knowledge
Beginning from a case history published in 1939, this chapter traces the development of colonial psychiatric ideas as a practical form of knowledge. The psychiatrists of the Algiers School of French psychiatry in Algeria offered scientific support to settlers' prejudices and changed the terms of discussion about indigenous mentalities. Antoine Porot and his students insisted that the North African natives' “primitivism” was overdetermined. This “…
The Shaping of Colonial Psychiatry
This chapter shows that psychiatry in metropolitan France had reached a state of crisis. The asylum-based model of care through confinement that had marked the profession's development in the nineteenth century had largely failed as a therapeutic solution. Given the undesirability of merely transplanting a failed technology for the management of insanity to a new environment, the intense scrutiny of the problems that plagued the North African mar…
Spaces of Experimentation, Sites of Contestation
This chapter explores the everyday realities of life and practice in colonial hospitals. It analyzes the mechanisms of confinement that brought European and Muslim patients into psychiatric care and highlights the differences in their experiences of treatment. Focusing on the period from the early 1930s to the mid-1950s, it examines a moment of prodigious experimentation in psychiatry that saw the development of a range of radical new technologie…
Violence, Resistance, and the Poetics of Suffering
Frantz Fanon, the Algiers School's most prominent detractor, was merely one voice in a cacophony of protest against colonial psychiatric racism in the twentieth century. This chapter argues that Fanon must be placed in a wider context of resistance that included not only physicians, but also budding post-colonial theorists such as Albert Memmi and fiction writers such as Kateb Yacine. An analysis of works by Fanon's contemporaries—especially Kate…
Underdevelopment, Migration, and Dislocation
This chapter explores the broad legacy of colonial psychiatry for the relationship between France and North Africa in the post-colonial era. Through an analysis of post-colonial film, literature, and medical writings, it highlights the vestiges of the Algiers School's work in the global present as well as the ongoing resistance it has engendered. At once an intellectual history and a cultural study of the post-colonial period, it speaks to the pr…
Place Matters
The devastating heat wave of August 2003 killed nearly fifteen thousand people in France, including more than a thousand in Paris alone. The social histories of many of these victims draw attention to the links between place and vulnerability in the urban environment, as well as their historical particularities. Housing conditions influenced a geography of vulnerability during the catastrophe. This essay focuses on this problem with attention to …
Unconscious Dominions
Enregistrer les morts, identifier les surmortalités
L’organisation sanitaire en Tunisie sous le Protectorat français (1881–1956)
Reviewed by: L’organisation sanitaire en Tunisie sous le Protectorat français (1881–1956): Un bilan ambigu et contrasté Richard C. Keller Benoît Gaumer. L’organisation sanitaire en Tunisie sous le Protectorat français (1881–1956): Un bilan ambigu et contrasté. Lévis, QC: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2006. xxiv + 276 pp. $40.00 (978-2-7637-8474-8). When the writer Guy de Maupassant visited Tunisia soon after the establishment of the French p…
Postcolonial Disorders (review)
Reviewed by: Postcolonial Disorders Richard C. Keller Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sandra Teresa Hyde, Sarah Pinto, and Byron J. Good, eds. Postcolonial Disorders. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xii + 465 pp. Ill. $65.00 (cloth, 978-0-520-25223-3), $27.50 (paperbound, 978-0-520-25224-0). Postcoloniality is disruption. It is a breaking of an old order and its replacement with something new. The experience is usually represented as pos…
Madness and Translation
Clinician and Revolutionary
Although scholars have exhibited close interest in the life and work of Frantz Fanon, few have emphasized his work as a psychiatrist. This essay surveys recent books and films that have placed Fanon's clinical experience at the center of his life's work. It concludes that historians of colonial medicine have much to gain from these works and their reexaminations of a controversial figure
Colonial Madness
Pinel in the Maghreb
For early twentieth century French psychiatrists, the colonies of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco appeared as crucial sites for innovation. Citing Pinel's liberation of the insane during the French Revolution as a precedent, colonial psychiatrists preached of their capacity to advance France's "civilizing mission" by delivering the insane from their suffering. Yet colonial renovation programs also drew them to scrutinize the failings of their own c…
Frantz Fanon
Reviewed by: Frantz Fanon: A Biography Richard C. Keller David Macey . Frantz Fanon: A Biography. New York: Picador USA, 2001. xvi + 640 pp. Ill. $40.00 (0-312-27550-1). Frantz Fanon—psychiatrist and voice of the Algerian revolution—has long been a difficult subject for biographers. Disturbed by his advocacy of violence as a legitimate tactic of national liberation, scholars have focused on his reputation as a psychiatric reformer and a crusader …
Argentina on the Couch
Argentina, this volume claims, is the “world capital of psychoanalysis” (p. 2). More than a therapeutic approach, psychoanalysis represents a “filter of intelligibility” for contemporary Argentines, a framework for understanding culture, politics, and society (p. 221). These essays explore the historical context for this development, resulting in a volume that historians and students interested in twentieth-century Argentine intellectual culture …
Colonial Madness
Place Matters
The devastating heat wave of August 2003 killed nearly fifteen thousand people in France, including more than a thousand in Paris alone. The social histories of many of these victims draw attention to the links between place and vulnerability in the urban environment, as well as their historical particularities. Housing conditions influenced a geography of vulnerability during the catastrophe. This essay focuses on this problem with attention to …
Argentina on the Couch
Argentina, this volume claims, is the “world capital of psychoanalysis” (p. 2). More than a therapeutic approach, psychoanalysis represents a “filter of intelligibility” for contemporary Argentines, a framework for understanding culture, politics, and society (p. 221). These essays explore the historical context for this development, resulting in a volume that historians and students interested in twentieth-century Argentine intellectual culture …
Pinel in the Maghreb
For early twentieth century French psychiatrists, the colonies of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco appeared as crucial sites for innovation. Citing Pinel's liberation of the insane during the French Revolution as a precedent, colonial psychiatrists preached of their capacity to advance France's "civilizing mission" by delivering the insane from their suffering. Yet colonial renovation programs also drew them to scrutinize the failings of their own c…
Frantz Fanon
Reviewed by: Frantz Fanon: A Biography Richard C. Keller David Macey . Frantz Fanon: A Biography. New York: Picador USA, 2001. xvi + 640 pp. Ill. $40.00 (0-312-27550-1). Frantz Fanon—psychiatrist and voice of the Algerian revolution—has long been a difficult subject for biographers. Disturbed by his advocacy of violence as a legitimate tactic of national liberation, scholars have focused on his reputation as a psychiatric reformer and a crusader …
Clinician and Revolutionary
Although scholars have exhibited close interest in the life and work of Frantz Fanon, few have emphasized his work as a psychiatrist. This essay surveys recent books and films that have placed Fanon's clinical experience at the center of his life's work. It concludes that historians of colonial medicine have much to gain from these works and their reexaminations of a controversial figure
Colonial Madness
Madness and Translation
L’organisation sanitaire en Tunisie sous le Protectorat français (1881–1956)
Reviewed by: L’organisation sanitaire en Tunisie sous le Protectorat français (1881–1956): Un bilan ambigu et contrasté Richard C. Keller Benoît Gaumer. L’organisation sanitaire en Tunisie sous le Protectorat français (1881–1956): Un bilan ambigu et contrasté. Lévis, QC: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2006. xxiv + 276 pp. $40.00 (978-2-7637-8474-8). When the writer Guy de Maupassant visited Tunisia soon after the establishment of the French p…
Postcolonial Disorders (review)
Reviewed by: Postcolonial Disorders Richard C. Keller Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sandra Teresa Hyde, Sarah Pinto, and Byron J. Good, eds. Postcolonial Disorders. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xii + 465 pp. Ill. $65.00 (cloth, 978-0-520-25223-3), $27.50 (paperbound, 978-0-520-25224-0). Postcoloniality is disruption. It is a breaking of an old order and its replacement with something new. The experience is usually represented as pos…
Enregistrer les morts, identifier les surmortalités
Unconscious Dominions
Between Clinical and Useful Knowledge
Beginning from a case history published in 1939, this chapter traces the development of colonial psychiatric ideas as a practical form of knowledge. The psychiatrists of the Algiers School of French psychiatry in Algeria offered scientific support to settlers' prejudices and changed the terms of discussion about indigenous mentalities. Antoine Porot and his students insisted that the North African natives' “primitivism” was overdetermined. This “…
The Shaping of Colonial Psychiatry
This chapter shows that psychiatry in metropolitan France had reached a state of crisis. The asylum-based model of care through confinement that had marked the profession's development in the nineteenth century had largely failed as a therapeutic solution. Given the undesirability of merely transplanting a failed technology for the management of insanity to a new environment, the intense scrutiny of the problems that plagued the North African mar…
Spaces of Experimentation, Sites of Contestation
This chapter explores the everyday realities of life and practice in colonial hospitals. It analyzes the mechanisms of confinement that brought European and Muslim patients into psychiatric care and highlights the differences in their experiences of treatment. Focusing on the period from the early 1930s to the mid-1950s, it examines a moment of prodigious experimentation in psychiatry that saw the development of a range of radical new technologie…
Violence, Resistance, and the Poetics of Suffering
Frantz Fanon, the Algiers School's most prominent detractor, was merely one voice in a cacophony of protest against colonial psychiatric racism in the twentieth century. This chapter argues that Fanon must be placed in a wider context of resistance that included not only physicians, but also budding post-colonial theorists such as Albert Memmi and fiction writers such as Kateb Yacine. An analysis of works by Fanon's contemporaries—especially Kate…
Underdevelopment, Migration, and Dislocation
This chapter explores the broad legacy of colonial psychiatry for the relationship between France and North Africa in the post-colonial era. Through an analysis of post-colonial film, literature, and medical writings, it highlights the vestiges of the Algiers School's work in the global present as well as the ongoing resistance it has engendered. At once an intellectual history and a cultural study of the post-colonial period, it speaks to the pr…
Place Matters
The devastating heat wave of August 2003 killed nearly fifteen thousand people in France, including more than a thousand in Paris alone. The social histories of many of these victims draw attention to the links between place and vulnerability in the urban environment, as well as their historical particularities. Housing conditions influenced a geography of vulnerability during the catastrophe. This essay focuses on this problem with attention to …
Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine
If we have science, do we really need history? Or perhaps to put the question another way, do historians need to draw on molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience, and genetics to validate their craft? Steven Pinker certainly seems to think so, arguing that stratigraphy and other scientific borrowings have converted archaeology from “a branch of art history to a high-tech science,” with a concomitant “explanatory depth” (The New Republic, 6 Augus…
Life After Biopolitics
The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France by Michael A. Osborne
Reviewed by: The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France by Michael A. Osborne Richard C. Keller Michael A. Osborne. The Emergence ofTropicalMedicine in France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. ix + 312 pp. 1ll. $50.00 ( 978-0-226-11452-1). For a literature that scarcely existed twenty-five years ago, the historiography of colonial science and medicine has flourished in the intervening period. As the field of postcolonial studies has …
Camille Robcis, Disalienation
Taming Cannabis
Reviewed by: Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France by David A. Guba, Jr Richard C. Keller David A. Guba, Jr. Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France. Intoxicating Histories. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. x + 302 pp. $37.95 (978-0-2280-0120-1). Cannabis occupies a curious cultural and legal space in France. The nation has the highest rate of cannabis consumption in the European Uni…
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