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"The Doctor Who Would Be King, the English-language translation of Guillaume Lachenal's Le Médecin qui voulut être roi, tells the story of Dr. Jean Joseph David, known as "King David" or the "Emperor of Haut-Nyong," and the experiment in colonial governance he led. Fr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lachenal, Guillaume, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Series:Theory in forms.
Subjects:
David, Jean Joseph.
To 1999
Medicine > France > Colonies > History > 20th century.
Medicine > Cameroon > History > 20th century.
Medical ethics > France > Colonies > History > 20th century.
Medical ethics > Cameroon > History > 20th century.
Physicians > France > Biography.
Physicians > Cameroon > Biography.
Colonial administrators > France > Biography.
Colonial administrators > Cameroon > Biography.
Médecine > France > Colonies > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Médecine > Cameroun > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Éthique médicale > France > Colonies > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Éthique médicale > Cameroun > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Administrateurs coloniaux > France > Biographies.
Administrateurs coloniaux > Cameroun > Biographies.
HISTORY / Africa / Central.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
Medicine > French colonies.
Colonial administrators.
Colonies > Administration.
French colonies.
Medical ethics.
Medicine.
Physicians.
Cameroon > History > To 1960.
France > Colonies > Administration > History > 20th century.
Cameroun > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1960.
Cameroon.
France.
Biographies.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A showcase for colonial humanism
  • An archipelago of camps
  • Madame Ateba
  • Advocating for a regime of exception
  • A French dream
  • Haut-Nyong must be saved
  • Lessons in medical administration
  • Paradise : a guided tour (December 2013)
  • A real-life experiment
  • The invisible men
  • Social medicine, French-style
  • Life has returned
  • Colonel David will become a general
  • The missionaries' nightmare
  • The dark waters of the Haut-Nyong
  • Rubber for the emperor
  • "Here we are the masters"
  • Koch! Koch!
  • King David
  • Uvea, desert island
  • Chronicles of the Golden Age
  • I te temi o Tavite (In the Time of David)
  • Doctor Machete
  • Becoming king, part I: Coup d'état at the dispensary
  • Becoming king, part II: The Wallisian art of governing
  • Becoming king, part III: Kicking custom to the curb
  • Te Hau Tavite
  • Tavite Lea Tahi (David-Only-Speaks-Once)
  • Doctor Disaster
  • Afelika (Africa)
  • Dachau, Indochina
  • The light riots.

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