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Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, And Hygiene In The Philippines
by Anderson, Warwick
About This Book
This is a groundbreaking study of the medical policies of the United States government during its 1898-1941 colonisation of the Philippines. The policies are seen to have the dual aim of maintaining the health and standards of the American colonisers and controlling and "civilising" the 7 million inhabitants of the country's 7000 islands. Among the socio-politico-medical subjects discussed are: the largely military and racially tinged approach to the colony's health; the primacy of sanitary regulations and controls; the imposed segregation or institutionalisation of some communicable diseases; the legacy in global medicine of the scientific/public health experience in the Philippines. With bibliography, black-and-white photographs and index.
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