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Colonial Pathologies - American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines (Paperback, New Ed)
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Colonial Pathologies - American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines (Paperback, New Ed)
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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.A vivid sense of a colonial culture
characterized by an anxious and assertive white masculinity emerges
from Anderson's description of American efforts to treat and
discipline allegedly errant Filipinos. His narrative encompasses a
colonial obsession with native excrement, a leper colony intended
to transform those considered most unclean and least socialized,
and the hookworm and malaria programs implemented by the
Rockefeller Foundation in the 1920s and 1930s. Throughout, Anderson
is attentive to the circulation of intertwined ideas about race,
science, and medicine. He points to colonial public health in the
Philippines as a key influence on the subsequent development of
military medicine and industrial hygiene, U.S. urban health
services, and racialized development regimes in other parts of the
world.
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