About this title: "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 transformation in the thinking of colonial doctors and scientists about what was most threatening to the health of white colonists.During the late ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ateneo De Manila University Press, Quezon City
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9789715505147ISBN:9715505147
Description: As New with no dust jacket. 15 x 23 cm.; pg. ix, 355; Introduction, notes, bibliography, index, illustrations. "[This book] 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 ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780822338437ISBN:0822338432
Description: New. "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 th... read more
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Edition: New Ed
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN-13:9780822338437ISBN:0822338432
Description: New. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. ""Colonial Pathologies" does the work that many colonial histories profess to do but rarely carry out: it provides us with a meticulous, dynamic, and grounded analysis of how political rationalities were honed and colonial and colonized subjectivities were formed through the changing medical perceptions and practices of U.S. imperial policy. ... read more
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