![]() | Medical Imperialism in French North Africa: Regenerating the Jewish Community of Colonial Tunis Subjects: Jews -- Tunisia -- Tunis -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Jews -- Health and hygiene -- Tunisia -- Tunis; Public health -- Tunisia -- History -- French occupation 1881–1956; Tunis (Tunisia) -- Social conditions -- 20th century; French-colonial Tunisia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed shifting concepts of identity, including varying theories of ethnic essentialism, a drive toward "modernization," and imperialist interpretations of science and medicine. As French colonizers worked to realize ideas of a "modern" city and empire, they undertook a program to significantly alter the physical and social realities by which the people of Tunisia lived, often in ways that continue to influence life today. Richard C. Parks is an academic specialist in the history of science and medicine at Michigan State University. |
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