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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface to the Paperback Edition
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Humoral Medicine: The Legacy of Hippocrates and Galen
• 3. Overview of the Three Plague Pandemics: 541 to ca. 1950
• 4. Plague as a Disease
• 5. Responses to Plague
• 6. Smallpox before Edward Jenner
• 7. The Historical Impact of Smallpox
• 8. War and Disease: Napoleon, Yellow Fever, and the Haitian Revolution
• 9. War and Disease: Napoleon, Dysentery, and Typhus in Russia, 1812
• 10. The Paris School of Medicine
• 11. The Sanitary Movement
• 12. The Germ Theory of Disease
• 13. Cholera
• 14. Tuberculosis in the Romantic Era of Consumption
• 15. Tuberculosis in the Unromantic Era of Contagion
• 16. The Third Plague Pandemic: Hong Kong and Bombay
• 17. Malaria and Sardinia: Uses and Abuses of History
• 18. Polio and the Problem of Eradication
• 19. HIV/AIDS: An Introduction and the Case of South Africa
• 20. HIV/AIDS: The Experience of the United States
• 21. Emerging and Reemerging Diseases
• 22. Dress Rehearsals for the Twenty-First Century: SARS and Ebola
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index