Warwick Anderson’s Colonical Pathologies\u00a0American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines<\/em>\u00a0(one of the coolest names ever besides Crockett) utilizes cultural and environmental lenses to examine how medical and racial intersect with imperialism and American boosterism and exceptionalism. Dividing the book into sections examining engagement of American military medicine, how Americans reshaped both public and private spheres,\u00a0and reviewing case studies that further his stance. Utilizing this new history from the Pan-Pacific side, Anderson asserts that all medicine is colonial\u00a0in its relation to the body. This ideology evolves over time into racialized epistemologies\u00a0that change Filipino cultural\u00a0discourse. ‘Medical Mobilization of civic potential\u00a0‘(p.4), combined with the bureaucratic boosters backing, creates this cultural change.<\/p>\n

Diana Nguyen<\/a>\u00a0stated in her post, “What I found most intriguing was that Anderson never truly defines the concept of \u201cbiomedical citizenship\u201d\u00a0throughout his book but rather instead, her\u00a0merely infer that compliance with medicalized colonial regimes would be interpreted as evidence for citizenship. “<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I completely agree with this as I never actually could locate anything that nailed down what seemed like a key term and a critical\u00a0point to the argument as Anderson states that the intention of the book is to “chart the colonial development and deferral of what might be called “biomedical citizenship,” (p.3). However, I do see the points that he laid out is defining what biomedical citizenship is within Americanization and its self-exceptionalism\u00a0to desire to make non-American’s clean and fit for the new globalizing world. Characterizing\u00a0both Filipino body and culture to show both progress and modernization creates a manufactured sense of place and self within the medical space. What he argues is an experience between both race and empire within the medical field. The result of this faux created citizenship through American medical exceptionalism is biomedical citizenship.<\/p>\n

The other readings that came to my mind are Camp and her utilization of racialized agency within cultural boundaries set by Americans. Using the medical field as space, American’s cultural assertion on Filipino culture creates a myth of the culture as something less than American exceptional. The idea of how one’s body can not only be utilized to create mythicized\u00a0agency and colonial boundaries of non-American cultural is apparent throughout the book. Another theme throughout the reading selections has been issuing\u00a0authority over people’s body. How does one obtain it, keep and utilize tactical strategies to deploy faux agency? Moreover, with assigning authority, what history is left to be examined against the grain? I find this true with both this book and our covered histories like Commanche Empire<\/em>, Fugitive\u00a0Landscapes, A Misplaced Massacre, Chinatown War and Closer to Freedom.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0Imperial order always has a cost and is often at the expense of the people who live in created marginalized boundaries (both geographical and cultural). The last chapters of the book were by far my favorite as they examined boosterism group The Rockefeller\u00a0Foundation and created racialized agency by associating\u00a0disease with Filipino culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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