Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. American Military Medicine Faces West 13
6. 2. The Military Basis of Colonial Public Health 45
7. 3. ‘‘Only Man Is Vile’’ 74
8. 4. Excremental Colonialism 104
9. 5. The White Man’s Psychic Burden 130
10. 6. Disease and Citizenship 158
11. 7. Late-Colonial Public Health and Filipino ‘‘Mimicry’’ 180
12. 8. Malaria Between Race and Ecology 207
13. Conclusion 227
14. Abbreviations 235
15. Notes 237
16. Bibliography 299
17. Index 343