TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘Heroes of Charity?’ Between Memory and Hagiography: Colonial Medical Heroes in the Era of Decolonisation
AU - Taithe, Bertrand
AU - Davis, Katherine
PY - 2014/10/9
Y1 - 2014/10/9
N2 - © 2014 Taylor & FrancisThis article focuses on two medical figures of significance, each of whom came to embody a different aspect of the colonial development ideal in the post-colonial period. Dr Eugène Jamot and Dr Albert Schweitzer became associated with competing forms of development or humanitarian work through the work of their hagiographers and commentators. While this article shows how their reputation resisted the end of their original colonial setting and how it was reinvented in the light of theological and medical interpretations of their lives, it also argues that this memorialisation became closely associated with fragmented groups and to private celebrations of their lives. Ultimately this amounts to a privatisation of heroic reputations.
AB - © 2014 Taylor & FrancisThis article focuses on two medical figures of significance, each of whom came to embody a different aspect of the colonial development ideal in the post-colonial period. Dr Eugène Jamot and Dr Albert Schweitzer became associated with competing forms of development or humanitarian work through the work of their hagiographers and commentators. While this article shows how their reputation resisted the end of their original colonial setting and how it was reinvented in the light of theological and medical interpretations of their lives, it also argues that this memorialisation became closely associated with fragmented groups and to private celebrations of their lives. Ultimately this amounts to a privatisation of heroic reputations.
U2 - 10.1080/03086534.2014.959719
DO - 10.1080/03086534.2014.959719
M3 - Article
SN - 0308-6534
JO - Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
JF - Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
ER -