{"id":405418,"date":"2024-02-05T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=405418"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"UH-reprints-UOG-professor-s-book-about-Guam-era-when-leprosy-patients-were-exiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/UH-reprints-UOG-professor-s-book-about-Guam-era-when-leprosy-patients-were-exiled\/","title":{"rendered":"UH reprints UOG professor’s book about Guam era when leprosy patients were exiled"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a different time in Guam. Between 1898 and 1941, CHamoru people afflicted with leprosy were banished from Guam and sent to a leprosarium in the Philippines.<\/p>\n

University of Guam professor Dr. Anne Hattori authored a book about this period when the U.S. Naval Administration controlled Guam.<\/p>\n

The Navy\u2019s health care regime in Guam at the time \u201cwas a vehicle through which U.S. colonial power and moral authority over CHamorus were introduced and entrenched,\u201d remarked Hattori, a native CHamoru and author of the 264-page book, Colonial Dis-Ease: US Navy Health Policies and the Chamorros of Guam, 1898\u20131941.<\/em> Hattori is a professor of History, CHamoru Studies, and Micronesian Studies at UOG.<\/p>\n

First published in 2004, the book got new traction when the University of Hawaii Press recently reprinted Colonial Dis-Ease<\/em> in paperback. The first print was hardcover.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe story of Guam\u2019s Hansen\u2019s Disease patients was not well published at the time I did my research, and it was an important topic to look at,\u201d Hattori added.<\/p>\n

\u201cMedical experts, Navy doctors, and health care workers asserted their scientific knowledge as well as their administrative might and, in the process, became active participants in the colonization of Guam,\u201d Hattori said.<\/p>\n

\u201cChanges to Guam\u2019s traditional systems of health and hygiene placed demands not only on CHamoru bodies, but also on their cultural values, social relationships, political controls, and economic expectations,\u201d according to Hattori.<\/p>\n

Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero recently signed a proclamation commemorating January 2024 as Leprosy Awareness Month.<\/p>\n

The book is available on UH Press.com<\/p>\n

For more information, contact, contact Hattori at hattoria@triton.uog.edu<\/a>. (UOG)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dr. Anne Perez Hattori, orofessor of History, CHamoru Studies, and Micronesian Studies at the University of Guam, holds the first and reprinted editions of her book, Colonial Dis-Ease: US Navy Health Policies and the Chamorros of Guam, 1898\u20131941.<\/em><\/p>\n

-UOG
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