This article explores the social impact of North African soldiers’ experiences in French military hospitals during World War I. In particular, it examines improvised “Muslim hospitals” that were opened in order to isolate North Africans from French civilian society. Colonial and military officials believed that North Africans, presumed to be warlike, pathogenic, and promiscuous, could corrupt and be corrupted by the French public. Yet while existing literature tends to highlight the dehumanization of North Africans at the hands of military and medical authorities, this article, drawing from personal correspondence, photographs, and military and medical records, reveals a more ambiguous daily reality. I argue that the individual needs and desires of wounded North Africans and of French nurses, as well as material limitations and contingencies, created spaces for an unprecedented series of humanizing personal encounters. In military-medical “colonies within the metropole,” these soldiers found themselves caught between a newfound sense of affinity with the French public and a starker sense of the boundaries of colonial practice.

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护理违法行为，探索差异：第一次世界大战期间法国医疗领域的北非人

本文探讨了第一次世界大战期间北非士兵在法国军队医院的经历所产生的社会影响。特别是，它考察了为将北非人与法国平民社会隔离开而开设的临时“穆斯林医院”。殖民地和军事官员认为，北非人被认为好战、病态和滥交，可能会腐化并被法国公众腐化。然而，尽管现有文献倾向于强调军事和医疗当局对北非人的非人化，但这篇文章从个人信件、照片、军事和医疗记录中提取，揭示了一个更加模棱两可的日常现实。我认为，受伤的北非人和法国护士的个人需求和愿望，以及物质限制和突发事件，为一系列前所未有的人性化个人相遇创造了空间。在军事医疗“大都市内的殖民地”中，这些士兵发现自己陷入了与法国公众的新亲近感和对殖民实践界限的更鲜明的感觉之间。