Warwick AndersonColonial Pathologies
American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines
Warwick Anderson teaches at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he is Chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics; Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Population Health; and Professor of the History of Science, Science and Technology Studies, and Southeast Asian Studies. He is the author of The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia, also published by Duke University Press.
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. American Military Faces West 13
2. The Military Basis of Colonial Public Health 45
3. “Only Man is Vile” 74
4. Excremental Colonialism 104
5. The White Man’s Psychic Burden 130
6. Disease and Citizenship 158
7. Late-Colonial Public Heath and Filipino “Mimicry” 180
8. Malaria Between Race and Ecology 207
Conclusion 227
Abbreviations 235
Notes 237
Bibliography 299
Index 343
