Medicalizing gutom hunger, diet, and beriberi during the American period

This article 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 J...

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Published in:	Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 63, No. 1 (March 2015), p. 39-69.
Main Author:	Ventura, Theresa (Author)
Resource Type:	Analytics
Language:	English
Published:	2015.
Subjects:	Beri-beri (Disease) Hunger > History > American regime, 1898-1935. Food supply > History > American regime, 1898-1935. Corn farming > History > American regime, 1898-1935.
Online Access:	https://forms.gle/KZjBv7aRtY6jiL5E9