Agents of Apocalypse : : Epidemic Disease in the Colonial Philippines /

Agents of Apocalypse : : Epidemic Disease in the Colonial Philippines / / Ken De Bevoise.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
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De Bevoise, Ken,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1995]
©1995
Year of Publication:1995
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 2 maps 2 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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