Administration of Sickness

WILLIAM GALLOIS is a Reader in History at Roehampton University, UK, having previously worked at SOAS, the American University of Sharjah and Queen Mary, University of London. He published Zola: The History of Capitalism in 1999 and Time, Religion and History in 2007.

• Introduction On the Idea of Medical Imperialism On Humanitarian Desire On Extermination On Attendance to Suffering and Demographic Collapse On the Just and Sovereign Testimony of Abdel Kader ben Zahra On Injustice and the Disavowal of Autonomy Bibliography

'A welcome intervention in an emerging field...This is an engaged and sometimes provocative exploration of the moral and ideological structures of colonial medicine in Algeria. It invites us to examine medical practices and lived experiences so that we might see the tensions and fractures which lay at the heart of the idea of colonial medicine and a medicalized colonial society.' - Revue d'Histoire du XIXe Siecle