Even native doctors are perceived by the colonized as part of the oppressors’ camp

Evidence

The colonial situation does not only vitiate the relations between doctor and patient. We have shown that the doctor always appears as a link in the colonialist network, as a spokesman for the occupying power. We shall see that this ambivalence of the patient before medical technique is to be found even when the doctor belongs to the dominated people. There is a manifest ambivalence of the colonized group with respect to any member who acquires a technique or the manners of the conqueror. For the group, in fact, the native technician is living proof that any one of its members is capable of being an engineer, a lawyer or a doctor. But there is at the same time, in the background, the awareness of a sudden divergence between the homogeneous group, enclosed within itself, and this native technician who has escaped beyond the specific psychological or emotional categories of the people. The native doctor is a Europeanized, Westernized doctor, and in certain circumstances he is considered as no longer being a part of the dominated society. He is tacitly rejected into the camp of the oppressors, into the opposing camp. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 424

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves reader’s research question about how colonial permeation of medicine affected even the European-minority-aligned native intellectuals. — connects to: Colonial property ownership aligns doctors with the oppression and exploitation of the colonized; Colonial medicine enters colonized societies paired with racial humiliation. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 395; Colonial authority fused medicine with state power, making doctors indistinguishable from police (+2 more)
• QUESTION: How does this ambivalence shift after the war of liberation, which Fanon promises to address?

Related

• Colonial property ownership aligns doctors with the oppression and exploitation of the colonized (similarity 0.88)
• The colonial situation forces colonized people to reject even beneficial medicine categorically. (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial medicine enters colonized societies paired with racial humiliation. (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial power structures standardize doctor-patient relations, destroying personal contact (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial authority fused medicine with state power, making doctors indistinguishable from police (similarity 0.84)
• Colonized peoples reject foreign medicine as an instrument of exploitation (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial medicine doubled as an intelligence and torture apparatus (similarity 0.83)
• Colonized patients’ bodies resist clinical examination as rigidly as their words (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial contexts transform even rational medical help into perceived humiliation (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial domination itself, not tradition, shapes native resistance to medicine (similarity 0.82)
• Colonized patients framed the medical encounter itself as a battle to win (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial authority fused doctor, administrator, and policeman into one identical figure. (similarity 0.81)
• Accepting French medicine trapped the colonized within the whole colonial system (similarity 0.80)
• Colonized people reject the occupier’s values even when objectively worth choosing (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Colonial property ownership aligns doctors with the oppression and exploitation of the colonized #expands (0.75)
• Economic dependence on property makes colonial doctors complicit in domination #expands (0.75)
• Colonial medicine enters colonized societies paired with racial humiliation. #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 395
• Colonial contexts transform even rational medical help into perceived humiliation #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 409
• Colonial authority fused medicine with state power, making doctors indistinguishable from police #expands (0.60)