Colonial medicine rationed by race, poisoning the colonized view of the European minority

Evidence

Yet the Algerian, when he sometimes would get a European to make his purchases, would see him return with the medicine which he had obtained without difficulty. The same Algerian had previously begged all the pharmacists of the vicinity, and had finally given up, having felt the last pharmacist’s hard and inquisitorial eye on him. The European would return, loaded down with medicines, relaxed, innocent. Such experiences have not made it easy for the Algerian to keep a balanced judgment toward members of the European minority. Science depoliticized, science in the service of man, is often non-existent in the colonies. For this Algerian who for hours has begged unsuccessfully for a hundred grams of sterile cotton, the colonialist world constitutes a monolithic block. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 448

Categorization

• XREF: Grounds the reader’s interest in how the French colony affected European minorities — showing medicine as a racial dividing wedge. — connects to: Colonized peoples reject foreign medicine as an instrument of exploitation; Colonized peoples read colonial vaccination as a tool of subjugation; Accepting French medicine trapped the colonized within the whole colonial system (+11 more)

Related

• Colonized peoples read colonial vaccination as a tool of subjugation (similarity 0.89)
• Colonial medicine’s ethical codes clashed with French authorities’ discriminatory policies (similarity 0.88)
• Tropical medicine reframed colonized Africans as biological threats justifying racial segregation (similarity 0.87)
• Accepting French medicine trapped the colonized within the whole colonial system (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial rule rewarded mixed-bloods according to their degree of whiteness. (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial medicine enters colonized societies paired with racial humiliation. (similarity 0.83)
• Malnutrition-driven lethargy was misread as racial indolence by settlers (similarity 0.82)
• Colonized peoples reject foreign medicine as an instrument of exploitation (similarity 0.82)
• The colonial situation forces colonized people to reject even beneficial medicine categorically. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial medical practice in Algeria degenerated into systematic fraudulent profit-taking. (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial hospitals served white patients in separate wards from Somalis (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial property ownership aligns doctors with the oppression and exploitation of the colonized (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial authorities embargoed medical supplies to deny Algerians self-treatment during the revolution (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial doctors interpreted Algerian pain as animal-like and undifferentiated (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial doctors ended up treating Algerian patients like animals (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Malnutrition-driven lethargy was misread as racial indolence by settlers #expands (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 185