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

• 主要作者: Ventura, Theresa; Department
• 格式: text
• 出版: Archīum Ateneo 2015
• 在線閱讀: https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol63/iss1/3; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/4064/viewcontent/6195.pdf
• 機構: Ateneo De Manila University

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...