Season 1 · Episode 5
S1E5: That Strange Disease Called Philippinitis (Remastered Ver.)
The Colonial Department · The Colonial Department
June 30, 202118m 44s
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<html><p>Anxious? Depressed? Fatigued? Slowly losing your mind? In their new colony, American colonial officers began succumbing to a strange mental disorder that they could not explain.</p><p><br/></p><p>Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a></p><p>Follow us on TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thecolonialdept" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a></p><p>Email us:<strong> </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a></p><p>The book version of this podcast is called <em>Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves: Lost Tales from the Philippine Colonial Period, 1565-1946</em>. <a href="https://www.faction.press/product-page/silk-silver-spices-slaves-philippines-history" target="_blank">Purchase here</a>. (An ebook version is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Silk-Silver-Spices-Slaves-Philippine-ebook/dp/B0D5JSXC5M" target="_blank">also available in Amazon</a>.) <br/><br/><br/></p><p>References:<br/></p><p>Rizal, Jose P. (1913). “Sobre la indolencia de los filipinos” (Austin Craig, trans.) Original work published in <em>La Solidaridad,</em> 1890.</p><p>“They Get ‘Philippinitis’: White Persons Suffer From It If They Stay Too Long in the Islands” (26 December 1908). <em>Mariposa Gazette</em>, LIV(31).</p><p>Anderson, Warwick (2007). <em>Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines. </em>Ateneo de Manila Press. </p><p>Roosevelt, Nicholas (1926). <em>The Philippines: A Treasure and a Problem. </em>J.H. Sears & Company.</p><p>Pringle, Yolana (2016). “Neurasthenia at Mengo Hospital, Uganda: A Case Study in Psychiatry and a Diagnosis, 1906–50.” <em>The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 44</em>(2), p. 241-262.</p><p>Wang, Wen-Ji (2014). “Tropical Neurasthenia or Oriental Nerves? White Breakdowns in China.” <em>Psychiatry and Chinese History </em>(Howard Chiang, ed.), p. 111-128.</p><p>Tam, Louise (2014). “Neurasthenia Revisited: Psychologizing Precarious Labor and Migrant Status in Contemporary Discourses of Asian American Nervousness.” <em>Disability and the Global South</em>, <em>1</em>(2), p. 340-364. </p><p>Anderson, Warwick (1997). “The Trespass Speaks: White Masculinity and Colonial Breakdown.” <em>The American Historical Review, 102</em>(5), p. 1343-1370.<br/><br/><br/></p></html>