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100			_aZurbrigg, Sheila
245		0	_aEpidemic Malaria and hunger in colonial Punjab : _bweakened by want / _cSheila Zurbrigg
250			_aSouth Asia ed.
260			_aLondon ; New York : _bRoutledge, _c2019.
300			_axxiii, 446 p. ; _c23 cm.
490			_aThe Social History of Health and Medicine in South Asia.
520			_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.
650			_aMedicine and Health
650			_aMalaria -- India -- Punjab -- History.
650			_aPublic health -- India
942			_cRBK
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