Introduction: The laboring dead
Crowded places: the roots of fresh air
Missing persons: the decline of contagion theory and the rise of epidemiology
Discovering epidemiology's voice: slavery, science, and the development of epidemiological methods in West Africa
Recordkeeping: epidemiological practices in the British Empire
Florence Nightingale: the unrecognized epidemiologist of the Crimean War and India
The other civil war: the United States Sanitary Commission's conflicted mission
Narrative maps: black troops, Muslim migrants, and the international cholera epidemic of 1865-6
"Sing, unburied, sing": slavery, Confederacy, and the practice of epidemiology
Conclusion: From subjugation to science.