‘Heroes of Charity?’ Between Memory and Hagiography: Colonial Medical Heroes in the Era of Decolonisation

Bertrand Taithe, Katherine Davis

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Abstract

© 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.
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
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Publication statusPublished - 9 Oct 2014

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