Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956

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The colonial encounter between France and Morocco took place not only Within the political realm but also Within the realm of medicine. Since the body politic and the physical body are intimately linked, French efforts to colonize Morocco took place in and through the body. Starting from this original premise, Medicine and the Saints traces a history of colonial embodiment in Morocco through a series of medical encounters between the Islamic sultanate of Morocco and the Republic of France from 1877 to 1956.

Drawing on a wealth of number one sources in both French and Arabic, Ellen Amster investigates the positivist ambitions of French colonial doctors, sociologists, philologists, and historians; the social history of the encounters and transformations occasioned by French medical interventions; and the ways wherein Moroccan nationalists in the long run appropriated a French model of modernity to invent the independent nation-state. Every chapter of the book addresses a different problem Within the history of medicine: international espionage and a health care provider’s murder; disease and insurrection in Moroccan cities; a battle for authority between doctors and Muslim midwives; and the seek for national identity Within the welfare state. This research reveals how Moroccans ingested and digested French science and used it to create a nationalist movement and Islamist politics, and to keep in mind disease and health. Within the colonial encounter, the Muslim body became a seat of subjectivity, the place from which individuals contested and redefined the political.

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