Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction: Thinking about Disease 1
5. 1. Sickbed and Symptoms in the 1870s and 1880s 9
6. 2. The Ecology of the Chest 29
7. 3. Into the Germ Zone 53
8. 4. Laboring to Get Well 69
9. 5. Goods for the Medical Marketplace and Invalid Trade 87
10. 6. Race–ing Illness at the Turn of the Century 100
11. 7. Mapping the Hygienic State 111
12. 8. Playing the Lone Game of Illness 135
13. 9. No Magic Mountain: The Latest Tuberculosis 156
14. Bibliographic Note 169
15. Notes 173
16. Illustration Sources 233
17. Index 235