Anderson, Warwick, 1958-
Colonial pathologies : American tropical medicine, race, and hygiene in the Philippines Warwick Anderson - Durham : Duke University Press, c2006. - ix, 355 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
1. American Military Medicine Faces West --
2. The Military Basis of Colonial Public Health --
3. "Only Man Is Vile" --
4. Excremental Colonialism --
5. The White Man's Psychic Burden --
6. Disease and Citizenship --
7. Late-Colonial Public Health and Filipino "Mimicry" --
8. Malaria Between Race and Ecology.
Colonial Pathologies is a groundbreaking history of the role of science and medicine in the American colonization of the Philippines from 1898 through the 1930s. Warwick Anderson describes how American colonizers sought to maintain their own health and stamina in a foreign environment while exerting control over and “civilizing” a population of seven million people spread out over seven thousand islands. In the process, he traces a significant transformation in the thinking of colonial doctors and scientists about what was most threatening to the health of white colonists. During the late nineteenth century, they understood the tropical environment as the greatest danger, and they sought to help their fellow colonizers to acclimate. Later, as their attention shifted to the role of microbial pathogens, colonial scientists came to view the Filipino people as a contaminated race, and they launched public health initiatives to reform Filipinos’ personal hygiene practices and social conduct.
9780822338437
Tropical medicine--History--Philippines
Military hygiene--History--Philippines
Philippines--Colonization--History
MEDICAL--Tropical Medicine
616.9883009599 AN CO
Colonial pathologies : American tropical medicine, race, and hygiene in the Philippines Warwick Anderson - Durham : Duke University Press, c2006. - ix, 355 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
1. American Military Medicine Faces West --
2. The Military Basis of Colonial Public Health --
3. "Only Man Is Vile" --
4. Excremental Colonialism --
5. The White Man's Psychic Burden --
6. Disease and Citizenship --
7. Late-Colonial Public Health and Filipino "Mimicry" --
8. Malaria Between Race and Ecology.
Colonial Pathologies is a groundbreaking history of the role of science and medicine in the American colonization of the Philippines from 1898 through the 1930s. Warwick Anderson describes how American colonizers sought to maintain their own health and stamina in a foreign environment while exerting control over and “civilizing” a population of seven million people spread out over seven thousand islands. In the process, he traces a significant transformation in the thinking of colonial doctors and scientists about what was most threatening to the health of white colonists. During the late nineteenth century, they understood the tropical environment as the greatest danger, and they sought to help their fellow colonizers to acclimate. Later, as their attention shifted to the role of microbial pathogens, colonial scientists came to view the Filipino people as a contaminated race, and they launched public health initiatives to reform Filipinos’ personal hygiene practices and social conduct.
9780822338437
Tropical medicine--History--Philippines
Military hygiene--History--Philippines
Philippines--Colonization--History
MEDICAL--Tropical Medicine
616.9883009599 AN CO