Colonial Pathologies - American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines

Informationen zum Autor Warwick Anderson teaches at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he is Chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics; Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Population Health; and Professor of the History of Science, Science and Technology Studies, and Southeast Asian Studies. He is the author of The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia, also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext A study of the promotion of hygiene and bodily reform in the colonial Philippines. Zusammenfassung A groundbreaking history of the role of science and medicine in the American colonization of the Philippines from 1898 through the 1930s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. American Military Faces West 13 2. The Military Basis of Colonial Public Health 45 3. “Only Man is Vile” 74 4. Excremental Colonialism 104 5. The White Man’s Psychic Burden 130 6. Disease and Citizenship 158 7. Late-Colonial Public Heath and Filipino “Mimicry” 180 8. Malaria Between Race and Ecology 207 Conclusion 227 Abbreviations 235 Notes 237 Bibliography 299 Index 343

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Anderson, Warwick Anderson, Warwick Anderson
• Edition: Duke University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 21.08.2006
• EAN: 9780822338048
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3804-8
• Pages: 368
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences de la Terre > Géographie; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences sociales en général