Reluctance to adopt new medical techniques occurs in European doctors too.

Evidence

For some time it was maintained that the native’s reluctance to entrust himself to a European doctor was due to his attachment to his traditional medical techniques or to his dependence on the sorcerers or healers of his group. Such psychological reactions do obviously exist, and they were to be observed, not too many years ago, not only among the masses of generally advanced countries, but also among doctors themselves. Leriche has reported to us the hesitancies or the refusals of certain doctors to adopt the thermometer because they were accustomed to estimating the temperature by taking the pulse. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 408

Categorization

• XREF: Fanon pre-empts the cultural-primitivism explanation by citing European medical conservatism — a telling methodological move.