Spotlight: How did French colonialism change medicine and the natural sciences in Morocco?
Presenter: Usman Butt
Delivered: London on December 11, 2022
In this afikra feature, Usman Butt explores how French colonialism changed medicine and the natural sciences in Morocco. He gives us an overview of Moroccan history, and talks about pre-colonial medicine and health care in Morocco and how they changed after French colonization.
Sources & Future References
Revealed Sciences: The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco by Justin Stearns
Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political By Tarek El-Ariss
Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire | JSTOR
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