Colonial Pathologies. American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines.
Durham. Duke University. 2006. Stock ID #178037 "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. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178037.
Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, ix + 355pp, index, bibliography, notes, spine little sunned, a very good paperback copy.
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.
He explains how, as colonial doctors and scientists began to focus on microbial pathogens as threats to the health of white colonists, they 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.
Anderson's 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." (Publisher's description).
Price: $30.00 AU