State, Society, and Sickness
Tuberculosis Control in the American Philippines, 1910–1918
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9398080 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aaron Rom O Moralina (corresponding author), Aaron Rom Moralina |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-10 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philippine Studies Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2244-1093 • E-ISSN: 2244-1638 |
| Publisher | Ateneo de Manila University Press (PUBLISHER • PH) |
| DOI | 10.13185/2244-1638.4980 |
| OpenAlex | W2265106290 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This article narrates the tuberculosis campaign in the American Philippines from 1910 until 1918 and elucidates the character of the disease control enterprise as a combination of the programs of the colonial state and the Philippine Islands Antituberculosis Society. The state's interventionist measures, complemented by the reformatory engagement led by the antituberculosis society, sought to restrain and reform the population in order to reduce alarmingly high tuberculosis mortality rates. The two-track character of the campaign remained unchanged, but the Filipinization of the colonial bureaucracy as well as the perception that urbanization was becoming a major epidemiological factor posed some challenges, which created a milieu for more desperate attempts to change the framework of efforts to control the disease
Bureaucracy · Colonialism · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · State (computer science · Tuberculosis · Tuberculosis control · Urbanization · Law · Medicine · Philippine History and Culture · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |