"Hot beds of disease": Malaria and civilization in nineteenth-century British India

Parassitologia

Volumn 40, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 11-18

  Harrison, M ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Civilization; Climate; Control; Fevers; India; Malaria; Topography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; INDIA; MALARIA; SANITATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INDIA; MALARIA; SANITATION;

EID: 0032087110     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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