Epidemics : hate and compassion from the plague of Athens to AIDS

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Introduction: hate, politics and compassion

PART I: Antiquity and the middle ages: Epidemics in antiquity: the moral universe and natural causes

Ancient epidemics: what the oracles had to say

Black death persecution and abandonment

Mechanisms for unity: saints and plagues

PART II: Early modernity: Syphilis: naming and blaming?

Plague spreaders

PART III: Modernity: epidemics of hate: Cholera's first European tour: the story in the British Isles

Cholera on the continent and in America

Cholera violence: an Italian story in comparative perspective

Cholera protest over time

Smallpox cruelty: the case of North America

Smallpox and collective violence

Smallpox violence in Victorian Britain

PART IV: Modernity: plagues of politics: Plague since 1894: India

Plague beyond India

Myths of plague

PART V: Modernity: plagues of compassion: Yellow fever: stories from Philadelphia and Memphis

Yellow fever: the broader picture

The great influenza: a forgotten pandemic?

The great influenza: quarantine and blame

The great influenza: a pandemic of compassion

The great influenza: (i) comparative vistas

The great influenza: (ii) comparative vistas-beyond the battlefields

Conclusion

Epilogue: HIV/AIDS: a pandemic of hate, compassion, and politics

Bibliography

Index