Foreword / by Peter N. Stearns -- Introduction -- Domains of contagion and confinement -- Framing "loathsome" diseases -- Tides of inertia and neglect -- Location : not in my backyard -- Banished : sojourns of the damned -- Belle of California's Molokai -- War minders : custodians and caregivers -- Hope for cures : nature or science -- Modern isolation : humanizing castaways -- Epilogue
Summary
Emotion's powerful role in personal and public responses to disease
