Muraleedharan V R
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.
Parassitologia. 2000 Jun;42(1-2):91-100.
The early decades of this century witnessed significant developments in the approaches to control of malaria in British India. These included both large-scale preventive measures and curative treatment methods (often referred to as "cinchona" or "quinine" policy). This paper identifies a number of factors that constrained the colonial government's capacity to control malaria through effective cinchona policy. The ideal of achieving "self-sufficiency" and having an efficient form of treatment and distribution within the reach of the masses in India (as originally intended in late 1850s) was far from being achieved. Both government's policy and medical profession seemed to have contributed equally to this failure.
本世纪初几十年见证了英属印度疟疾控制方法的重大发展。这些发展包括大规模预防措施和治疗方法（通常称为“金鸡纳”或“奎宁”政策）。本文指出了一些制约殖民政府通过有效金鸡纳政策控制疟疾能力的因素。实现“自给自足”以及让印度民众能够获得高效治疗和分发方式的理想（最初于19世纪50年代末提出）远未实现。政府政策和医学界似乎对这一失败负有同等责任。
