Pinel in the Maghreb

Liberation, Confinement, and Psychiatric Reform in French North Africa

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15024366
AutoresRichard C Keller (University of Wisconsin–Madison, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen79
Número3
Páginas459-499
Fecha de publicación2005-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBulletin of the history of medicine (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-5140 • E-ISSN: 1086-3176
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/bhm.2005.0112
PMID16184017
OpenAlexW1990322002
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas23

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 common practices. Psychiatrists saw their field in a state of crisis, marked by overcrowded asylums and outdated therapeutic concepts. Attempts to modernize colonial terrains thus also aimed at re creating a discipline that had fallen into decline

Colonialism · Economic history · Political science · Psychiatry · State (computer science) · Historical and Scientific Studies · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History · Law · Medicine · Neurology and Historical Studies