Book Launch and Discussion: Malarial Subjects by Rohan Deb Roy
Royal Asiatic Society Council Room 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomSimon Layton (Chair). Speakers include Dr. Nayanika Mathur (Oxford), Professor Clare Anderson (Leicester), Professor Richard Drayton (King's College, London), Dr. Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge), Professor Simon Schaffer (Cambridge) Malaria was considered one of the most widespread disease-causing entities in the nineteenth century. It was associated with a variety of frailties far beyond fevers, ranging from idiocy…