Colonial Pathologies

by Anderson, Warwick

• ISBN13: 9780822338048
• ISBN10: 0822338041
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-30
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"It's difficult to overstate the significance of this book. Its account of hygiene as the means for establishing 'biomedical citizenship' in the Philippines under U.S. rule is carefully crafted and powerfully argued. Sympathetically deconstructing the assertiveness and delusions of white colonial medical practitioners beset by the specters of native bodily excess, Warwick Anderson shows how race and biology defined civic identities in the colony and the metropole alike. A path-breaking work on imperial medicine, it is certain to attract a wide readership."--Vicente L. Rafael, author of "The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines"

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	vii
INTRODUCTION	1	(12)
1. American Military Medicine Faces West	13	(32)
2. The Military Basis of Colonial Public Health	45	(29)
3. "Only Man Is Vile"	74	(30)
4. Excremental Colonialism	104	(26)
5. The White Man's Psychic Burden	130	(28)
6. Disease and Citizenship	158	(22)
7. Late-Colonial Public Health and Filipino "Mimicry"	180	(27)
8. Malaria Between Race and Ecology	207	(20)
CONCLUSION	227	(8)
ABBREVIATIONS	235	(2)
NOTES	237	(62)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	299	(44)
INDEX	343