This book looks at the relationship between malaria and its social, political and environmental milieu in Sri Lanka over an 80-year period from 1930 to 2010. Providing an ethno-historical account of the accumulated body of indigenous knowledge, practices and cultural adaptation to fevers, it describes how they saw a rapid decline with the arrival of Western medicine. Further, it discusses at length the politics of the devastating malaria epidemic of 1934-35 that ...
