Abstract
Amster’s book is an original and well-documented social history of medicine in Morocco during the precolonial and colonial periods. While approaching embodiment as a historical and social process, a method inspired by Foucault’s biopolitics, the author simultaneously shows the limitation of the power/knowledge Foucauldian approach when applied to colonial medicine in Morocco. The author illustrates how the medical encounter, in this particular context, is less a hegemonic inscription of disci...
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