Colonial Dis-Ease: US Navy Health Policies and the Chamorros of Guam, 1898-1941

by Anne Perez Hattori

Book Overview

A variety of cross-cultural collisions and collusions--sometimes amusing, sometimes tragic, but always complex--resulted from the US Navy's introduction of Western health and sanitation practices to Guam's native population. In Colonial Dis-Ease, Anne Perez Hattori examines early twentieth-century US military colonialism through the lens of Western medicine and its cultural impact on the Chamorro people. In four case studies, Hattori considers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824894162
• ISBN13: 9780824894160
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 264 Pages