Book Review: “A Social History Of Malaria In Sri Lanka”
| by Laksiri Fernando
( October 7, 2014, Sydney, Sri Lanka Guardian) This is about a book by Professor Kalinga Tudor Silva titled “Decolonization, Development and Disease: A Social History of Malaria in Sri Lanka.” If I put it suggestively, this book can be called a study of ‘socio-malariology.’ It is not malariology proper as far as we know its parameters, but its social or sociological side. Tudor Silva is Senior Professor in Sociology at the University of Peradeniya and this book might take international attention in a context where Ebola is creating similar havoc like malaria, rapidly taking an increasing number of death toll and raising similar questions like what the author has raised underpinning lopsided decolonization, unequal development, conflict and poverty.