The human response to plague in Western Europe and the Middle East, 1347 to 1844 -- Dark hidden meanings: leprosy and lepers in the medieval west and in the tropical world under the European imperium -- Smallpox in the New World and in the old: from holocaust to eradicaton, 1518-1977 -- The secret plague: syphilis in West Europe and East Asia, 1492-1965 -- Cholera and civilization: Great Britain and India, 1817-1920 -- Yellow fever, malaria and development: Atlantic Africa and the New World, 1647-1928
