Guillaume Lachenal

The Doctor Who Would Be King

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9781478015246
• ISBN-10: 1478015241
• Artikelnr.: 62188011

Autorenporträt

Guillaume Lachenal

Inhaltsangabe

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