| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines. By Warwick Anderson. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. x, 355 pp. Cloth, $84.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3804-8. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3843-7.)

For some years now, public health has been a topic of considerable interest to historians of colonialism, for it offers an excellent canvas for exploring at close quarters relations between the powerful and the dispossessed, the expert and the ignorant, the afflicted and the healer, and, above all, the state and the individual. In many colonial arenas, studies of public health have offered a window into broader colonial relations as well as into developments in medical practice, knowledge, and power. Warwick Anderson has already made a name for himself in this field, with both a series of clever articles (some resurfacing in this volume) on American medical practice in the Philippines and also with his publications on tropical medicine in northern Australia, most prominently in The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia (2002). Devotees of his earlier work will not be disappointed by this tightly argued and well-conceived study of American colonial medicine in the Philippines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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