Medicalizing Gutom Hunger, Diet, and Beriberi during the American Period

Medicalizing Gutom Hunger, Diet, and Beriberi during the American Period

Thisarticle looks at American responses to food scarcity in the colonial Philippines. Dismissive of hunger and starvation in the early occupation, Americans initially ascribed ill health to poorly chosen foods like rice. Labor unrest, crop failures following Taal Volcano’s 1911 eruption, and José Al...

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Main Author: Ventura, Theresa; Department
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2015
Online Access:https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol63/iss1/3
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.phstudies-40642024-08-07T03:42:03Z Medicalizing Gutom Hunger, Diet, and Beriberi during the American Period Ventura, Theresa; Department Thisarticle looks at American responses to food scarcity in the colonial Philippines. Dismissive of hunger and starvation in the early occupation, Americans initially ascribed ill health to poorly chosen foods like rice. Labor unrest, crop failures following Taal Volcano’s 1911 eruption, and José Albert’s identification of infantile beriberi, however, forced American administrators, doctors, and agriculturalists to confront scarcity in several ways. First, “corn campaigns” sought to enhance rice-based diets with corn. Second, research linking beriberi to mechanically milled rice led to vitamin B supplementation campaigns. However, the medicalization of hunger obscured the root causes of scarcity, which American rule exacerbated.KEYWORDS: BERIBERI • FAMINE • UNITED STATES • HEALTH •PHILIPPINE–AMERICAN WAR 2015-02-26T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol63/iss1/3 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/4064/viewcontent/6195.pdf Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Archīum Ateneo
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description Thisarticle looks at American responses to food scarcity in the colonial Philippines. Dismissive of hunger and starvation in the early occupation, Americans initially ascribed ill health to poorly chosen foods like rice. Labor unrest, crop failures following Taal Volcano’s 1911 eruption, and José Albert’s identification of infantile beriberi, however, forced American administrators, doctors, and agriculturalists to confront scarcity in several ways. First, “corn campaigns” sought to enhance rice-based diets with corn. Second, research linking beriberi to mechanically milled rice led to vitamin B supplementation campaigns. However, the medicalization of hunger obscured the root causes of scarcity, which American rule exacerbated.KEYWORDS: BERIBERI • FAMINE • UNITED STATES • HEALTH •PHILIPPINE–AMERICAN WAR
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author Ventura, Theresa; Department
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Medicalizing Gutom Hunger, Diet, and Beriberi during the American Period
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title Medicalizing Gutom Hunger, Diet, and Beriberi during the American Period
title_short Medicalizing Gutom Hunger, Diet, and Beriberi during the American Period
title_full Medicalizing Gutom Hunger, Diet, and Beriberi during the American Period
title_fullStr Medicalizing Gutom Hunger, Diet, and Beriberi during the American Period
title_full_unstemmed Medicalizing Gutom Hunger, Diet, and Beriberi during the American Period
title_sort medicalizing gutom hunger, diet, and beriberi during the american period
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