The Anatomy of Power: European Constructions of the African Body - Couverture souple

Butchart, Alex

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 185649540X ISBN 13 : 9781856495400

Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

‘It is difficult to identify a single example of a colonial or post-colonial society in which the public health official, the primary health care nurse, the hospital doctor, the psychiatrist, and many other representatives of the socio-medical sciences are not present. It is equally impossible to identify any setting where the population has no knowledge of how to act and react in the ritual of the medical examination by doctor, inspection by the aid worker, interrogation by the anthropologist, or enumeration by the census officer,‘ writes Alex Butchart.

Using Foucault‘s thinking on the relationship between power and knowledge, the author of this extraordinary book analyzes the ways in which the body of ‘The African‘ has itself been analyzed in western thought from the Renaissance to the present. The book not only provides a critical edge to debates around colonialism and African identity, it is also an invaluable new reservoir of source materials for scholars with a passion for knowing the body politic and its anatomy of power.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alexander Butchart is coordinator of the Prevention of Violence Team (PVL) at the World Health Organisation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Zed Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 185649540X
• ISBN 13: 9781856495400
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 250
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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