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008			060210s2007 ncuab b 001 0 eng
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050			_aRC 962.P6 _b.An23 2007
100			_aAnderson, Warwick, _d-1958 _951765
245		0	_aColonial pathologies : _bAmerican tropical medicine, race, and hygiene in the Philippines / _cWarwick Anderson.
260			_aQuezon City : _bAteneo de Manila University Press, _c2007
300			_aix, 355 pages : _billustrations, maps _c25 cm.
500			_aOriginally published: Durham : Duke University Press, c2006.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aColonial 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. (Source: http://www.amazon.com)
650			_aMilitary hygiene _zPhilippines _9102105
650			_aTropical medicine _zPhilippines _9102106
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