Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / by Peter N. Stearns
  • Introduction
  • Domains of contagion and confinement
  • Framing "loathsome" diseases
  • Tides of inertia and neglect
  • Location : not in my backyard
  • Banished : sojourns of the damned
  • Belle of California's Molokai
  • War minders : custodians and caregivers
  • Hope for cures : nature or science
  • Modern isolation : humanizing castaways
  • Epilogue.