Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Body of the Problem -- 2. Approaches and Paths -- 3. Body, Rite and Islam -- 4. Diversity, Inequality and Health -- 5. Medical Systems, Crossovers, Ruptures and Diasporas -- 6. Layout and Organisation of the Book -- Chapter One Notions of the Person -- 1.1. The Concept of the Person in Anthropology -- 1.2. Definitions of the Person and Cosmogonies in the Arabo-Muslim World -- 1.3. Bodily Components and Metaphors: Organs, Humours and Substances -- 1.4. Notions of Person, Humours and Temperaments -- 1.5. Sexed Nature: Conceptions of Masculinity and Femininity -- 1.6. Theodicy and Muslim Conceptions of Suffering and Illness -- 1.7. Expressions of Pain and Illness in Morocco -- Chapter Two Purity and Impurity: What Enters and Leaves the Body -- 2.1. Definition and Causes of Impurity in Islam -- 2.2. Islamic Purification Rites -- 2.3. Hygiene, Cleanliness and Care of the Body -- 2.4. "That Which Enters": Body, Purity and Eating Practices -- Chapter Three The Body of the Rite: Gender and Social Ages -- 3.1. Introduction: Rites of Passage -- 3.2. Rituality and Stages of Life -- Chapter Four Plural Notions of Illness and Treatment -- 4.1. Medical Pluralism: Intersections and Coincidences -- 4.2. Classical Humoral Medicine: tibb al-iunani -- 4.3. Prophetic Medicine: tibb al-nabawī -- 4.4. Popular Medicine and "Traditional" Ways of Healing -- 4.5. Specialists and Treatments -- 4.6. The "Malfare State": Social Inequalities and the Modern Health System -- Chapter Five Among the jnūn: Possessions, Magic and Psychosomatic Afflictions -- 5.1. The Madness of Conceptions: What Is a Mental Illness in Morocco? -- 5.2. Interpretation of Dreams -- 5.3. Psychosomatic Afflictions of Magical-Religious Origin -- 5.4. Traditional Therapies: Specialists, Spaces and Techniques -- Chapter Six Sexuality and Reproduction.

6.1. Notions and Regulation of Sexuality -- 6.2. The Value of Fertility and the Ghost of Infertility -- 6.3. Notions of Procreation -- 6.4. Contraception and Abortion -- 6.5. Pregnancy and Birth -- 6.6. Breast-Feeding -- Conclusions -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.