French army doctors induced experimental epileptic fits in Algerians to measure racial seizure thresholds.

Evidence

French soldiers hospitalized in the psychiatric services of the French Army in Algeria have all seen the experimental epileptic fits produced in Algerians and in infantrymen from south of the Sahara, for the purpose of estimating the specific threshold of each of the different races. These men on whom the French doctors practiced these experiments were brought to the hospital on the “scientific pretext” of having to make further examinations. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 461

Categorization

• QUESTION: What were the findings or stated conclusions of these racial-threshold experiments, and who published them?
• XREF: connects to: Colonial doctors ended up treating Algerian patients like animals; Arriving in France produces measurable physiological and psychic changes in Negroes — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 87; Colonial doctors interpreted Algerian pain as animal-like and undifferentiated (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Colonial doctors ended up treating Algerian patients like animals #exemplifies (0.70)
• Colonial doctors interpreted Algerian pain as animal-like and undifferentiated #expands (0.65)
• Arriving in France produces measurable physiological and psychic changes in Negroes #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 87
• French refusal to train African doctors presumed African populations insufficiently developed #expands (0.55)