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Cover: 9781478017868 | The Doctor Who Would Be King | Guillaume Lachenal | Taschenbuch | 2022
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The Doctor Who Would Be King
Taschenbuch von Guillaume Lachenal
Sprache: Englisch

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In The Doctor Who Would Be King Guillaume Lachenal tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Jean Joseph David, a French colonial army doctor who governed an entire region of French Cameroon during World War II. Dr. David-whom locals called "emperor"-dreamed of establishing a medical utopia. Through unchecked power, he imagined realizing the colonialist fantasy of emancipating colonized subjects from misery, ignorance, and sickness. Drawing on archives, oral histories, and ethnographic fieldwork, Lachenal traces Dr. David's earlier attempts at a similar project on a Polynesian island and the ongoing legacies of his failed experiment in Cameroon. Lachenal does not merely recount a Conradian tale of imperial hubris, he brings the past into the present, exploring the memories and remains of Dr. David's rule to reveal a global history of violence, desire, and failure in which hope for the future gets lost in the tragic comedy of power.
In The Doctor Who Would Be King Guillaume Lachenal tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Jean Joseph David, a French colonial army doctor who governed an entire region of French Cameroon during World War II. Dr. David-whom locals called "emperor"-dreamed of establishing a medical utopia. Through unchecked power, he imagined realizing the colonialist fantasy of emancipating colonized subjects from misery, ignorance, and sickness. Drawing on archives, oral histories, and ethnographic fieldwork, Lachenal traces Dr. David's earlier attempts at a similar project on a Polynesian island and the ongoing legacies of his failed experiment in Cameroon. Lachenal does not merely recount a Conradian tale of imperial hubris, he brings the past into the present, exploring the memories and remains of Dr. David's rule to reveal a global history of violence, desire, and failure in which hope for the future gets lost in the tragic comedy of power.
Über den Autor
Guillaume Lachenal is Professor in History of Science, médialab, Sciences Po, Paris and author of The Lomidine Files: The Untold Story of a Medical Disaster in Colonial Africa.

Cheryl Smeall is an independent scholar and translator.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction 1
Part I. The Mandated Territory of Cameroon, 1939–1944
1. A Showcase for Colonial Humanism 17
2. An Archipelago of Camps 22
3. Madame Ateba 26
4. Advocating for a Regime of Exception 31
5. A French Dream 36
6. Haut-Nyong Must Be Saved 40
7. Lessons in Medical Administration 45
8. Paradise: A Guided Tour (December 2013) 52
9. A Real-Life Experiment 58
10. The Invisible Men 63
11. Social Medicine, French-Style 69
12. Life Has Returned 75
13. Colonel David Will Become a General 84
14. The Missionaries' Nightmare 92
15. The Dark Waters of the Haut-Nyong 95
16. Rubber for the Emperor 100
17. "Here We Are the Masters" 106
18. Koch! Koch! 111
Part II. The French Protectorate of Wallis and Futuna, 1933–1938
19. King David 125
20. Uvea, Desert Island 129
21. Chronicles of the Golden Age 140
22. I te Temi o Tavite (In the Time of David) 153
23. Doctor Machete 160
24. Becoming King, Part I: Coup d'état at the Dispensary 165
25. Becoming King, Part II: The Wallisian Art of Governing 172
26. Becoming King, Part III: Kicking Custom to the Curb 178
27. Te Hau Tavite 183
28. Tavite Lea Tahi (David-Only-Speaks-Once) 190
29. Doctor Disaster 198
Part III. Epilogues
30. Afelika (Africa) 215
31. Dachau, Indochina 223
32. The Light Riots 232
Afterword: Global Health Utopias from David to COVID-19 238
Acknowledgments 245
Notes 249
Index 293
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478017868
ISBN-10: 1478017864
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lachenal, Guillaume
Übersetzung: Smeall, Cheryl
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Guillaume Lachenal
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.04.2022
Gewicht: 0,452 kg
Artikel-ID: 120311974
Über den Autor
Guillaume Lachenal is Professor in History of Science, médialab, Sciences Po, Paris and author of The Lomidine Files: The Untold Story of a Medical Disaster in Colonial Africa.

Cheryl Smeall is an independent scholar and translator.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction 1
Part I. The Mandated Territory of Cameroon, 1939–1944
1. A Showcase for Colonial Humanism 17
2. An Archipelago of Camps 22
3. Madame Ateba 26
4. Advocating for a Regime of Exception 31
5. A French Dream 36
6. Haut-Nyong Must Be Saved 40
7. Lessons in Medical Administration 45
8. Paradise: A Guided Tour (December 2013) 52
9. A Real-Life Experiment 58
10. The Invisible Men 63
11. Social Medicine, French-Style 69
12. Life Has Returned 75
13. Colonel David Will Become a General 84
14. The Missionaries' Nightmare 92
15. The Dark Waters of the Haut-Nyong 95
16. Rubber for the Emperor 100
17. "Here We Are the Masters" 106
18. Koch! Koch! 111
Part II. The French Protectorate of Wallis and Futuna, 1933–1938
19. King David 125
20. Uvea, Desert Island 129
21. Chronicles of the Golden Age 140
22. I te Temi o Tavite (In the Time of David) 153
23. Doctor Machete 160
24. Becoming King, Part I: Coup d'état at the Dispensary 165
25. Becoming King, Part II: The Wallisian Art of Governing 172
26. Becoming King, Part III: Kicking Custom to the Curb 178
27. Te Hau Tavite 183
28. Tavite Lea Tahi (David-Only-Speaks-Once) 190
29. Doctor Disaster 198
Part III. Epilogues
30. Afelika (Africa) 215
31. Dachau, Indochina 223
32. The Light Riots 232
Afterword: Global Health Utopias from David to COVID-19 238
Acknowledgments 245
Notes 249
Index 293
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478017868
ISBN-10: 1478017864
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lachenal, Guillaume
Übersetzung: Smeall, Cheryl
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Guillaume Lachenal
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.04.2022
Gewicht: 0,452 kg
Artikel-ID: 120311974
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