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Article: Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines.(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- June 22, 2008
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Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race and Hygiene in the Philippines. By Warwick Anderson (Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2006. ix plus 355 pp. $84.95 hardback/$23.95 paper-back).
The principal theme of the book, reiterated in eight chapters, is that after the American conquest of the Philippines in the wake the Spanish-American War (1899) American Public Health and Military authorities attempted to "sanitize" the indigenous population. The American "sanitizers" took it for granted that they were carrying out the first steps necessary for the conversion of people they regarded as "Oriental" savages into American-style, God-fearing, ...