
Epidemics
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- Introduction: Hate, Politics, and Compassion
- Part One: Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- 1: Epidemics in Antiquity: The Moral Universe and Natural Causes
- 2: Ancient Epidemics: What the Oracles Had To Say
- 3: Black Death Persecution and Abandonment
- 4: Mechanisms for Unity: Saints and Plagues
- Part Two: Early Modernity
- 5: Syphilis: Naming and Blaming?
- 6: Plague Spreaders
- Part Three: Modernity: Epidemics of Hate
- 7: Cholera's First European Tour: The Story in the British Isles
- 8: Cholera on the Continent and in America
- 9: Cholera Violence: An Italian Story in Comparative Perspective
- 10: Cholera: A Comparative History of Disturbance
- 11: Smallpox Cruelty: The Case of North America
- 12: Smallpox and Collective Violence
- 13: Smallpox Violence in Victorian Britain
- Part IV: Modernity: Plagues of Politics
- 14: Plague since 1894: India
- 15: Plague Beyond India
- 16: Myths of Plague
- Part V: Modernity: Plagues of Compassion
- 17: Yellow Fever: Stories from Philadelphia and Memphis
- 18: Yellow Fever: The Broader Picture
- 19: The Great Influenza: A Forgotten Pandemic?
- 20: Quarantine and Blame
- 21: A Pandemic of Compassion
- 22: Comparative Vistas (I): The Great Influenza
- 23: Comparative Vistas (II): Beyond the Battlefields
- 24: Conclusion
- 25: Epilogue. HIV/AIDS: An Epidemic of Hate, Compassion, and Politics
- Bibliography and Appendix of Newspapers
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