Algerian deaths in hospitals were read as deliberate European murder.

Evidence

The sudden deaths of Algerians in hospitals, a common occurrence in any establishment caring for the sick and the injured, are interpreted as the effects of a murderous and deliberate decision, as the result of criminal maneuvers on the part of the European doctor. The Algerian’s refusal to be hospitalized is always more or less related to that lingering doubt as to the colonial doctor’s essential humanity. It needs to be said, too, although it is not the rule, that in certain hospital services experimentation on living patients is practiced to an extent that cannot be considered negligible. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 404

Categorization

• QUESTION: Fanon asserts experimentation on living patients in colonial hospitals to a non-negligible extent — worth pursuing the archival evidence for this specific claim.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how colonial death/dying is described — this is the interpretive framework through which colonized patients experienced hospital mortality. — connects to: Military doctors let wounded Algerian soldiers die to avoid feeding them in prison; Daily mass killings in Algiers normalised death to the point of passers-by ignoring victims.; Medical embargoes meant some Algerians died for lack of treatment (+5 more)

Related

• Medical embargoes meant some Algerians died for lack of treatment (similarity 0.90)
• French authorities compelled doctors to report wounded Algerians under legal penalty. (similarity 0.86)
• Algerians refused hospitalization until death was nearly certain (similarity 0.85)
• Algerian refusal of hospital care delayed treatment until death was nearly certain. (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial doctors ended up treating Algerian patients like animals (similarity 0.84)
• Algerians accepted French hospital treatment only when Algerian doctors approved it (similarity 0.83)
• Algiers averaged thirty to forty killings a day in early 1962 (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial law compelled doctors to surveil wounded Algerians under legal penalty (similarity 0.81)
• Witnessing colonial torture firsthand converted a French doctor to the Algerian cause. (similarity 0.80)
• Algerians combined modern and traditional medicine for political and psychological reasons (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial authorities embargoed medical supplies to deny Algerians self-treatment during the revolution (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial medicine doubled as an intelligence and torture apparatus (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial doctors interpreted Algerian pain as animal-like and undifferentiated (similarity 0.80)
• Regrouped Algerians deteriorated physiologically to the point that medication stopped working. (similarity 0.79)
• European doctors who befriended Algerians were warned by superiors and settler civilians. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• French authorities compelled doctors to report wounded Algerians under legal penalty. #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 434
• Colonial doctors ended up treating Algerian patients like animals #expands (0.65)
• Medical care entered Algerian villages enforced by police and army authority #expands (0.60)
• Torture backfired as a boomerang weapon in the Algerian war. #responds-to (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1659