A study of the promotion of hygiene and bodily reform in the colonial Philippines.

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