01305nam a2200193Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200200007610000220009624500910011825000190020926000430022830000280027149000610029952006560036065000240101665000430104065000280108320260708094304.0250523s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a9780367247300  223a614.532 ZUR  aZurbrigg, Sheila  0aEpidemic Malaria and hunger in colonial Punjab : bweakened by want /cSheila Zurbrigg  aSouth Asia ed.  aLondon ; New York :bRoutledge,c2019.  axxiii, 446 p. ;c23 cm.  aThe Social History of Health and Medicine in South Asia.  aThis scholarly study argues that acute hunger and famine conditions played a central role in the severe malaria epidemics that affected colonial Punjab during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using mortality statistics, demographic data, and colonial records, Sheila Zurbrigg examines the relationship between food insecurity, famine relief policies, and malaria mortality. The book challenges conventional explanations of epidemic malaria and explores the broader connections between disease, poverty, nutrition, and colonial governance. It is an important contribution to the history of medicine, public health, and colonial South Asia.  aMedicine and Health  aMalaria -- India -- Punjab -- History.  aPublic health -- India