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• Azicate’s History of Medicine develops a working methodological framework for the history of medicine in the Philippines
• The availability of new technologies for disease control such as antibiotic drugs, which came after the Second World War, also led to the belief in the possibility of a “world free from disease”.4 The eventual establishment of the World Health Organization (WHO), which declared that health was a “fundamental human right”, became the concrete manife...
• First, following Foucault’s work, the body is a result of “deeper structural arrangements of power
• scientific period is always associated with the Americans; advances in medical science and epidemiology enabled the Americans to implement more effective public health measures, particularly in the prevention and control of epidemics
• true to a large extent, particularly in terms of the medical achievements of the twentieth century that coincided with American rule, this does not necessarily mean that medicine prior to the coming of the Americans in the Philippines was not scientific.

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