TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zurbrigg, Sheila 
TI  - Epidemic Malaria and hunger in colonial Punjab : : weakened by want 
T2  - The Social History of Health and Medicine in South Asia
SN  - 9780367247300
U1  - 614.532 ZUR 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London ; New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Medicine and Health
KW  - Malaria -- India -- Punjab -- History
KW  - Public health -- India
N2  - This 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
ER  -