The Doctor Who Would Be King

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Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN 13: 9781478017868
ISBN 10: 1478017864
Book Description: In The Doctor Who Would Be King Guillaume Lachenal tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Jean Joseph David, a French colonial army doctor who governed an entire region of French Cameroon during World War II. Dr. Davidâ€•whom locals called â€œemperorâ€â€•dreamed of establishing a medical utopia. Through unchecked power, he imagined realizing the colonialist fantasy of emancipating colonized subjects from misery, ignorance, and sickness. Drawing on archives, oral histories, and ethnographic fieldwork, Lachenal traces Dr. Davidâ€™s earlier attempts at a similar project on a Polynesian island and the ongoing legacies of his failed experiment in Cameroon. Lachenal does not merely recount a Conradian tale of imperial hubris, he brings the past into the present, exploring the memories and remains of Dr. Davidâ€™s rule to reveal a global history of violence, desire, and failure in which hope for the future gets lost in the tragic comedy of power.
About the Author: Guillaume Lachenal is Professor in History of Science, mÃ©dialab, Sciences Po, Paris and author of The Lomidine Files: The Untold Story of a Medical Disaster in Colonial Africa. Cheryl Smeall is an independent scholar and translator.
Language: English
Author: Guillaume Lachenal
Publication Date: 2022-04-15
Number of Pages: 312 pages