00000cab a22000004a 4500 IPP-00000659250 IPP 20240522094632.0 240522s2023 xx d | ||r |||||eng|| eng Lasco, Gideon Measuring race and nation pediatric anthropometry and child growth charts in the Philippines (1909-2008) Measuring race and nation pediatric anthropometry and child growth charts in the Philippines (1909-2008) 2023 This essay traces the development of pediatric anthropometry in the Philippines. During the American colonial and early postcolonial periods, anthropometric data based on the physical attributes of American children were used to measure the growth of Filipino children. Then from the 1960s to 1980s, there were a demand for and official shift to local standards. By the late 1990s, however, the country adopted international standards endorsed by the World Health Organizations. This essay argues that, aside from mirroring global public health currents, these shifting standards were informed by notions of the measured body in figurations of racial and national identity. Anthropometry Growth of children National identity Filipino children Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 71, no. 1 (2023), 37-52 UPD DMLP Article FI