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Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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The Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Agents of Apocalypse
Author: Ken De Bevoise
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400821428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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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 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.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400821428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
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.
Infectious Diseases
Author: Wesley William Spink
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452910367
Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 599
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Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452910367
Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 599
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Health Information for International Travel 2005-2006
Author: Paul Arguin
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Manual of the Bureau of Health for the Philippine Islands, 1911
Author: Philippines. Bureau of Health, 1905-1915
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Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
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Contagious and Infectious Diseases Among the Indians
Author: United States. Public Health Service
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Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Checklist of Publications of the Government of the Philippine Islands September 1, 1900, to December 31, 1917
Author: National Library (Philippines). Legislative Reference Division
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Communicable Diseases: Communicable disease transmitted through contact or by unknown means
Author: United States. Army Medical Dept
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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