Volume 1. A look inside: pathogens and the human body
Gateways for pathogens: sources, hosts, vectors, and contracting disease
Outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics
Confronting infectious disease: before germ theory
Battles against infectious disease: triumph of germ theory
Epidemic disease in the twenty-first century
Economics and epidemic disease
Governments, politics, and plagues
Religion, magic, and epidemic disease
Colonialism, slavery, racism, and epidemic disease
Media and epidemics from Gutenberg to AIDS
Disease in the literary, visual, and performing arts.
Volume 2. Malaria in ancient Rome
First plague pandemic, 541-747
Smallpox epidemic in Japan, 735-737
Leprosy in medieval Europe
The Black Death begins: the second plague pandemic, 1346-1352
Epidemcis in sixteenth-century America
"French disease" in sixteenth-century Europe
Epidemics and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
Plague in Italian cities, 1630s
Epidemics in China, 1635-1644
Plague in Marseille, 1720-1722
Smallpox in eighteenth-century Europe
Yellow fever in Hispaniola, 1793-1804
Yellow fever in Philadelphia, 1793
Epidemics in the Napoleonic Wars, 1797-1815
Consumption in the nineteenth century
First cholera pandemic, 1817-1824
Second cholera pandemic, 1827-1835
Third cholera pandemic, 1839-1856
Typhoid fever in cities, 1850-1920
Yellow fever in New Orleans, 1853
Fourth cholera pandemic, 1863-1875
Smallpox in Europe, 1870-1875
Fifth cholera pandemic, 1881-1896
Influenza pandemic, 1889-1893
Cholera epidemic in Hamburg, 1892
Third plague pandemic, 1894-?
Sixth cholera pandemic, 1899-1923
Sleeping sickness in East Central Africa, 1900-1905
Typhoid Mary's "epidemics," 1906-1915
Pneumonic plague epidemic in Manchuria, 1910-1911
Cholera epidemic in Naples, 1910-1911
Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1916
Influenza pandemic, 1918-1919
Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1945-1955
Seventh cholera pandemic, 1961-
Contemporary HIV/AIDS pandemic, 1980-
The mad cow crisis and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, 1985-
Contemporary tuberculosis
SARS epidemic, East Asia, 2002-2003
"Asian flu" (H1N1) epidemic, Asia, 2009-2010
MERS epidemic, Middle East, 2012-?
Ebola virus epidemic, West Africa, 2013-2016
Pneumonic plague epidemic, Madagascar, 2014-2017
Zika virus epidemic, Latin America and the Caribbean, 2015-2017
Cholera epidemic, Yemen, 2017-?
Contemporary measles outbreaks, United States.
