Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Maps, Figures, and Tables vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction: Minerva’s Children 1
6. Part I: Contagion
7. 1. Devotions of Affliction: The Dramaturgy of Colonial Epidemics 25
8. 2. Periodically Healthy: The Nature of Medicine and the Fashion of Science 58
9. 3. “Massacre of the Innocents”: Preventing Smallpox, 1796–1798 98
10. Part II: Immunization
11. 4. The Gift of Immunity: Domesticating Techniques 135
12. 5. Republics of Vaccinators: Everyday Expertise through the Insurgency 167
13. 6. Medicine’s Malcontents: An Oral History 213
14. Conclusion 239
15. Notes 249
16. Bibliography 321
17. Index 349