Algerian refusal of hospital care delayed treatment until death was nearly certain.

Evidence

For dozens of years, despite the doctor’s exhortations, the Algerian shied away from hospitalization. Even though the specialist might insist that any hesitation would seriously endanger the patient’s life, the patient would hang back and refuse to be taken to the hospital. It would always be at the last moment, when hardly any hope remained, that consent was given. Even then, the man who made the decision would make it in opposition to the group; and as the case would be a desperate one, as the decision had been too long delayed, the patient would usually die. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 405

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the lethal material consequence of the ambivalent attitude described in para 395 — distrust of colonial medicine directly caused avoidable deaths. — connects to: Algerians accepted French hospital treatment only when Algerian doctors approved it; Algerians refused hospitalization until death was nearly certain; Medical embargoes meant some Algerians died for lack of treatment (+3 more)

Related

• Algerians refused hospitalization until death was nearly certain (similarity 0.95)
• Medical embargoes meant some Algerians died for lack of treatment (similarity 0.90)
• Algerians accepted French hospital treatment only when Algerian doctors approved it (similarity 0.88)
• Algerian deaths in hospitals were read as deliberate European murder. (similarity 0.84)
• Algerians rejected colonial medicine not from ignorance but as resistance (similarity 0.84)
• Colonized populations reject imperial medicine not from ignorance but as political resistance. (similarity 0.83)
• Colonized hospitalization refusal stems from anti-colonial resistance, not rural superstition. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial authorities embargoed medical supplies to deny Algerians self-treatment during the revolution (similarity 0.81)
• Algerians combined modern and traditional medicine for political and psychological reasons (similarity 0.81)
• Algerian patients conceive disease as single assault requiring one-shot cure (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial domination itself, not tradition, shapes native resistance to medicine (similarity 0.79)
• French authorities compelled doctors to report wounded Algerians under legal penalty. (similarity 0.79)
• Algerian willingness to use French hospitals changed when orders came from maquis doctors (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• F.L.N. wounded often waited weeks for treatment that frequently came too late. #expands (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1226
• Algerians rejected colonial medicine not from ignorance but as resistance #complicates (0.60)
• Colonial authorities embargoed medical supplies to deny Algerians self-treatment during the revolution #qualifies (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 447