Article ID: CBB001252858

Civilization and Syphilization: A Doctor and His Disease in Colonial Morocco (2013)

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In colonial North Africa a mutilating disease resembling syphilis was a focal point for French medical debate about the world history of syphilis, the physiological effects of climate and race, and the science of microbiology. From 1916 to 1919, the French venereologist Georges Lacapère established a pilot scheme in Fez, Morocco, for diagnosis and treatment of "native" syphilis. In 1923 he published his research findings and coined the disease concept "Arab syphilis" to describe a form of syphilis found in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, which he characterized in behavioral terms. Lacapère's work was not simply derivative of earlier discourses, nor was it a straightforward outcome of his clinical experience in Morocco. The careers of Lacapère and Arab syphilis problematize the analytical use of race to understand colonial biomedicine in the Maghreb.

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Authors & Contributors
Keller, Richard Charles
Amster, Ellen Jean
Belt, Henk van den
Blais, Hélène
Carrara, Sérgio Luís
Darby, Robert J. L.
Journals
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
French Colonial History
Social History of Medicine
Gesnerus
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Journal of Historical Geography
Publishers
University of Pennsylvania
New York, City University of
Palgrave
University of Nebraska Press
University of Rochester Press
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Concepts
Medicine
France, colonies
Syphilis
Sexually transmitted diseases
Colonialism
Medicine and society
People
Nicolle, Charles Jules Henry
Fleck, Ludwik
Hardy, Georges
Pinel, Philippe
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Early modern
Places
Tunisia
Morocco
Algeria
North Africa
France
Africa
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
League of Nations
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