Agents of Apocalypse : : Epidemic Disease in the Colonial Philippines / / Ken De Bevoise.
As waves of epidemic disease swept the Philippines in the late nineteenth century, some colonial physicians began to fear that the indigenous population would be wiped out. Many Filipinos interpreted the contagions as a harbinger of the Biblical Apocalypse. Though the direct forebodings went unfulfi...
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De Bevoise, Ken, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Agents of Apocalypse : Epidemic Disease in the Colonial Philippines / Ken De Bevoise. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1995] ©1995 1 online resource (328 p.) : 2 maps 2 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Map of Asia and the East Indies, 1875 -- Map of Philippine Provinces and Principal Islands, 1890 -- INTRODUCTION. Dimensions of the Crisis -- PART ONE -- CHAPTER 1. Probability of Contact -- CHAPTER 2. Susceptibility -- PART TWO -- CHAPTER 3. Venereal Disease: Evolution of a Social Problem -- CHAPTER 4. Smallpox: Failure of the Health Care System -- CHAPTER 5. Beriberi: Fallout from Cash Cropping -- CHAPTER 6. Malaria: Disequilibrium in the Total Environment -- CHAPTER 7. Cholera: The Island World as an Epidemiological Unit -- CONCLUSION. Intervention and Disease -- Abbreviations used in the Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star As waves of epidemic disease swept the Philippines in the late nineteenth century, some colonial physicians began to fear that the indigenous population would be wiped out. Many Filipinos interpreted the contagions as a harbinger of the Biblical Apocalypse. Though the direct forebodings went unfulfilled, Philippine morbidity and mortality rates were the world's highest during the period 1883-1903. In Agents of Apocalypse, Ken De Bevoise shows that those "mourning years" resulted from a conjunction of demographic, economic, technological, cultural, and political processes that had been building for centuries. The story is one of unintended consequences, fraught with tragic irony.De Bevoise uses the Philippine case study to explore the extent to which humans participate in creating their epidemics. Interpreting the archival record with conceptual guidance from the health sciences, he sets tropical disease in a historical framework that views people as interacting with, rather than acting within, their total environment. The complexity of cause-effect and agency-structure relationships is thereby highlighted. Readers from fields as diverse as Spanish, American, and Philippine history, medical anthropology, colonialism, international relations, Asian studies, and ecology will benefit from De Bevoise's insights into the interdynamics of historical processes that connect humans and their diseases. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Epidemiology Philippines. HISTORY / Asia / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package 9783110649680 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691034867 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400821426?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400821426 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400821426.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Map of Asia and the East Indies, 1875 -- Map of Philippine Provinces and Principal Islands, 1890 -- INTRODUCTION. Dimensions of the Crisis -- PART ONE -- CHAPTER 1. Probability of Contact -- CHAPTER 2. Susceptibility -- PART TWO -- CHAPTER 3. Venereal Disease: Evolution of a Social Problem -- CHAPTER 4. Smallpox: Failure of the Health Care System -- CHAPTER 5. Beriberi: Fallout from Cash Cropping -- CHAPTER 6. Malaria: Disequilibrium in the Total Environment -- CHAPTER 7. Cholera: The Island World as an Epidemiological Unit -- CONCLUSION. Intervention and Disease -- Abbreviations used in the Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Map of Asia and the East Indies, 1875 -- Map of Philippine Provinces and Principal Islands, 1890 -- INTRODUCTION. Dimensions of the Crisis -- PART ONE -- CHAPTER 1. Probability of Contact -- CHAPTER 2. Susceptibility -- PART TWO -- CHAPTER 3. Venereal Disease: Evolution of a Social Problem -- CHAPTER 4. Smallpox: Failure of the Health Care System -- CHAPTER 5. Beriberi: Fallout from Cash Cropping -- CHAPTER 6. Malaria: Disequilibrium in the Total Environment -- CHAPTER 7. Cholera: The Island World as an Epidemiological Unit -- CONCLUSION. Intervention and Disease -- Abbreviations used in the Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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