Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of contents; List of llustrations; Acknowledgements; Communicating Disease; Part I Health, Geography and Aesthetics; Chapter 1 'What New Forms of Death'; 'West-India Georgic'; Georgic Organicism; Empire of Experiment; Imitation and Innovation; Chapter 2 The Diagnostics of Description; The Diagnostics of Description; Colonial Picturesque; Medical Topographical Aesthetics; 'A Change of Air and Place'; Colonial Gothic; Medical Vision; Part II Colonial Bodies.

Chapter 3 Skin, Textuality and Colonial FeelingClimate and Complexion: The Porosity of Skin; Inside/Out: The Body without Skin; Narratives of Body and Text; Sentimental Textuality; Chapter 4 'A Seasoned Creole' and 'a Citizen of the World'; Creole Pathologies; 'Not One of the World's Family'; Creole Modernities; Creoles and Atlantic Medical and Natural Knowledge; Part III Revolution and Abolition; Chapter 5 The 'Intimate Union of Medicine and Magic'; Obeah in the Archive; Obeah and Medicine in the British Caribbean; The Contagious Imagination.

Three-Fingered Jack and the Performance of ProphecyColonial Gothic and Hamel, the Obeah Man (1827); Mimesis and Modernity; Afterword: Colonial Modernities and after Abolition; Notes; Communicating Disease; 1 'What New Forms of Death'; 2 The Diagnostics of Description; 3 Skin, Textuality and Colonial Feeling; 4 'A Seasoned Creole' and 'a Citizen of the World'; 5 The 'Intimate Union of Medicine and Magic'; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.