Colonial authority fused doctor, administrator, and policeman into one identical figure.
Evidence
In the colonial situation, however, it is impossible to create the physical and psychological conditions for the learning of hygiene or for the assimilation of concepts concerning epidemic diseases. In the colonial situation, going to see the doctor, the administrator, the constable or the mayor are identical moves. The sense of alienation from colonial society and the mistrust of the representatives of its authority, are always accompanied by an almost mechanical sense of detachment and mistrust of even the things that are most positive and most profitable to the population. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 446
Categorization
- DEFINE: Fanon’s definitional claim: in coloniality, even beneficial medicine is read as the same gesture of domination as police power.
- XREF: Connects to reader’s ongoing theme of medicine as a permeating colonial apparatus — and to later scholarship on medical mistrust among colonized peoples. — connects to: Colonial authority fused medicine with state power, making doctors indistinguishable from police; Economic dependence on property makes colonial doctors complicit in domination; Egyptian officers were simultaneously targets and agents of colonial power (+1 more)
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- Colonial authority fused medicine with state power, making doctors indistinguishable from police (similarity 0.96)
- Colonial power structures standardize doctor-patient relations, destroying personal contact (similarity 0.84)
- Even native doctors are perceived by the colonized as part of the oppressors’ camp (similarity 0.81)
- Colonial medicine doubled as an intelligence and torture apparatus (similarity 0.80)
- Colonial property ownership aligns doctors with the oppression and exploitation of the colonized (similarity 0.79)
- Colonial medicine’s ethical codes clashed with French authorities’ discriminatory policies (similarity 0.78)