Agents Of The Apocalypse
philippine studies
Ateneo de Manila University • Loyola Heights, Quezon City • 1108 Philippines
Agents of Apocalypse, by De Bevoise
Review Author: David Keck
Philippine Studies vol. 45, no. 3 (1997): 431–433
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Book Reviews and Notes
Agents of Apocalypse Epldtmic Disease in the Colonial Philippines.
By. Ken De Bevoise. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Ken De Bevoise's Agents of Apocalypse: Epidemic Disease in the Colonial Philip pines is an extremely important bobk and ought to be widely read by those interested in Philippine Studies. Its subject matter-the complex historical ecology of disease in late nineteenth- and early twentiethqentury Philippines-may well come to inform not only the study of the past but also contemporary Philippine issues. The basic statistics reveal that people were dying on a phenomenal scale: during crisis mortality periods due to diseases in this era, the annual death rate soared from one person in forty to one in twenty-five, and in some years, the death rate even tripled. That newspapers today are filled with details of outbreaks of diseases and high-infant mortality rates suggests that De Bevoise's ri& historical presentation may yield significant lessons for contemporary problems.
While some other historians have noted the importance of rinderpest, or the great attention paid by colonial
Ateneo de Manila University • Loyola Heights, Quezon City • 1108 Philippines
Agents of Apocalypse, by De Bevoise
Review Author: David Keck
Philippine Studies vol. 45, no. 3 (1997): 431–433
Copyright © Ateneo de Manila University
Philippine Studies is published by the Ateneo de Manila
University. Contents may not be copied or sent via email or other means to multiple sites and posted to a listserv without the copyright holder’s written permission. Users may download and print articles for individual, noncommercial use only. However, unless prior permission has been obtained, you may not download an entire issue of a journal, or download multiple copies of articles.
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Fri June 27 13:30:20 2008
Book Reviews and Notes
Agents of Apocalypse Epldtmic Disease in the Colonial Philippines.
By. Ken De Bevoise. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Ken De Bevoise's Agents of Apocalypse: Epidemic Disease in the Colonial Philip pines is an extremely important bobk and ought to be widely read by those interested in Philippine Studies. Its subject matter-the complex historical ecology of disease in late nineteenth- and early twentiethqentury Philippines-may well come to inform not only the study of the past but also contemporary Philippine issues. The basic statistics reveal that people were dying on a phenomenal scale: during crisis mortality periods due to diseases in this era, the annual death rate soared from one person in forty to one in twenty-five, and in some years, the death rate even tripled. That newspapers today are filled with details of outbreaks of diseases and high-infant mortality rates suggests that De Bevoise's ri& historical presentation may yield significant lessons for contemporary problems.
While some other historians have noted the importance of rinderpest, or the great attention paid by colonial