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Malaria in Colonial South Asia
ISBN-13:
9781000691153
Veröffentl:
2019
Seiten:
318
Autor:
Sheila Zurbrigg
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
0 - No protection
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book highlights the role of acute hunger in malaria lethality in colonial South Asia and investigates how this factor came to be lost in modern medical, epidemic, and historiographic thought with the reductive application of nutritional science and immunology.
Introduction 1. The 'Human Factor' Transformed 2. The 1934-35 Ceylon Epidemic and its Epistemic Aftermath 3. Hunger Eclipsed: Nutritional Science in Colonial South Asia 4. The Larger Sanitationist Context 5. Colonial Retrenchment and 'Selling' Vector Control 6. Malaria and the W.H.O.: The 'Human Factor' Set Aside 7. Allure and Legacies of the Germ Paradigm 8. What Was Lost. Appendix I: Malaria Transmission in Punjab. Appendix II: An Epidemiological Approach to Hunger in History. Bibliography. Index
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