Colonial Dis-Ease: US Navy Health Policies and the Chamorros of Guam, 1898–1941A variety of cross-cultural collisions and collusions—sometimes amusing, sometimes tragic, but always complex—resulted from the U.S. Navy’s introduction of Western health and sanitation practices to Guam’s native population. In Colonial Dis-Ease, Anne Perez Hattori examines early twentieth-century U.S. military colonialism through the lens of Western medicine and its cultural impact on the Chamorro people. In four case studies, Hattori considers the histories of Chamorro leprosy patients exiled to Culion Leper Colony in the Philippines, hookworm programs for children, the regulation of native midwives and nurses, and the creation and operation of the Susana Hospital for women and children. |
Contents
Sanitary Confinement Guam and the US Navy 18981941 | xv |
We Have Taught Guam to Wash Her Face The US Naval Government and Western Medicine on Guam | 37 |
They Were Treated Like Animals in a Parade Fear and Loathing of Hansens Disease on Guam | 59 |
Feminine Hygiene The US Navy Chamorro Maternity and Gender Relations in Colonial Guam | 89 |
The Cry of the Little People The Susana Hospital and Guams Women and Children | 122 |
Hookworm and Hygiene Chamorro Children and the Clinical Gaze | 152 |
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