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

by Warwick Anderson

Book Overview

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. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822338432
• ISBN13: 9780822338437
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"