Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Chapter Zero. Introduction 1
6. Chapter One. What Came Before Zero? 42
7. Chapter Two. The Cluster Study 77
8. Chapter Three. “Humanizing This Disease” 139
9. Chapter Four. Giving a Face to the Epidemic 186
10. Chapter Five. Ghosts and Blood 246
11. Chapter Six. Locating Gaétan Dugas’s Views 289
12. Epilogue Zero Hour 354
13. Appendix: Oral History Interviews 377
14. Bibliography 379
15. Index 419