Maladies of empire: how colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine

Introduction

1. Crowded Places: Slave Ships, Prisons, and Fresh Air

2. Missing Persons: The Decline of Contagion Theory and the Rise of Epidemiology

3. Epidemiology's Voice: Tracing Fever in Cape Verde

4. Recordkeeping: Epidemiological Practices in the British Empire

5. Florence Nightingale: The Unrecognized Epidemiologist of the Crimean War and India

6. From Benevolence to Bigotry: The US Sanitary Commission's Conflicted Mission

7. "Sing, Unburied, Sing": Slavery, the Confederacy, and the Practice of Epidemiology

8. Narrative Maps: Black Troops, Muslim Pilgrims, and the Cholera Pandemic of 1865-1866

Conclusion: The Roots of Epidemiology.