The Doctor Who Would Be King

Introduction 1
Part I. The Mandated Territory of Cameroon, 1939-1944
1. A Showcase for Colonial Humanism 17
2. An Archipelago of Camps 22
3. Madame Ateba 26
4. Advocating for a Regime of Exception 31
5. A French Dream 36
6. Haut-Nyong Must Be Saved 40
7. Lessons in Medical Administration 45
8. Paradise: A Guided Tour (December 2013) 52
9. A Real-Life Experiment 58
10. The Invisible Men 63
11. Social Medicine, French-Style 69
12. Life Has Returned 75
13. Colonel David Will Become a General 84
14. The Missionaries' Nightmare 92
15. The Dark Waters of the Haut-Nyong 95
16. Rubber for the Emperor 100
17. "Here We Are the Masters" 106
18. Koch! Koch! 111
Part II. The French Protectorate of Wallis and Futuna, 1933-1938
19. King David 125
20. Uvea, Desert Island 129
21. Chronicles of the Golden Age 140
22. I te Temi o Tavite (In the Time of David) 153
23. Doctor Machete 160
24. Becoming King, Part I: Coup d'état at the Dispensary 165
25. Becoming King, Part II: The Wallisian Art of Governing 172
26. Becoming King, Part III: Kicking Custom to the Curb 178
27. Te Hau Tavite 183
28. Tavite Lea Tahi (David-Only-Speaks-Once) 190
29. Doctor Disaster 198
Part III. Epilogues
30. Afelika (Africa) 215
31. Dachau, Indochina 223
32. The Light Riots 232
Afterword: Global Health Utopias from David to COVID-19 238
Acknowledgments 245
Notes 249
Index 293