The barber-healer and the doctor: Colonial medicine in Morocco
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The arrival of colonial medicine was skillfully orchestrated, combining persuasion and coercion. What began as “soft” colonization gradually transformed into a “health dictatorship” in a country ravaged by epidemics, a land that had once been a thriving hub of global medicine. Faced with the epidemics of the 19th century, the people of Morocco lived in...