The Philippine Covidscape: Colonial Public Health Redux?

The Philippine Covidscape: Colonial Public Health Redux?

Comparing historical perceptions of three epidemics in the Philippines and the responses they elicited allows us to see how these disease outbreaks were conceived in terms of configuration, whether ecological or sociological, and contamination. Cholera in 1902, influenza in 1918–1919, and Covid-19 i...

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Main Author: Anderson, Warwick
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.phstudies-10542024-08-07T03:42:03Z The Philippine Covidscape: Colonial Public Health Redux? Anderson, Warwick Comparing historical perceptions of three epidemics in the Philippines and the responses they elicited allows us to see how these disease outbreaks were conceived in terms of configuration, whether ecological or sociological, and contamination. Cholera in 1902, influenza in 1918–1919, and Covid-19 in 2020 each open up revealing cross sections through Philippine social life, culture, and governance. Furthermore, simplistic assumptions of contamination or pollution—in contrast to more complexly structured configurational models—are correlated with coercive or militaristic reactions to pandemics, including social distancing, lockdowns, curfews, and suppression of dissent. KEYWORDS: MEDICINE • SCIENCE • HISTORY • CHOLERA • INFLUENZA • COVID-19 2020-10-28T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol68/iss3/4 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/1054/viewcontent/The_20Philippine_20Covidscape_20_5Bvol._2068_20nos._203_E2_80_934_20_282020_29_20325_E2_80_9337_5D.pdf Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Archīum Ateneo
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description Comparing historical perceptions of three epidemics in the Philippines and the responses they elicited allows us to see how these disease outbreaks were conceived in terms of configuration, whether ecological or sociological, and contamination. Cholera in 1902, influenza in 1918–1919, and Covid-19 in 2020 each open up revealing cross sections through Philippine social life, culture, and governance. Furthermore, simplistic assumptions of contamination or pollution—in contrast to more complexly structured configurational models—are correlated with coercive or militaristic reactions to pandemics, including social distancing, lockdowns, curfews, and suppression of dissent. KEYWORDS: MEDICINE • SCIENCE • HISTORY • CHOLERA • INFLUENZA • COVID-19
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The Philippine Covidscape: Colonial Public Health Redux?
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title The Philippine Covidscape: Colonial Public Health Redux?
title_short The Philippine Covidscape: Colonial Public Health Redux?
title_full The Philippine Covidscape: Colonial Public Health Redux?
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