Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Malaria: The ''Italian National Disease'' -- 2 From Miasma to Mosquito: The Rome School of Malariology -- 3 A Nation Mobilizes -- 4 From Quinine to Women's Rights: Hopes, Illusions, and Victories -- 5 The First World War and Epidemic Disease -- 6 Fascism, Racism, and Littoria -- 7 Creating Disaster: Nazism and Bioterror in the Pontine Marshes -- 8 Fighting Disaster: DDT and Old Weapons -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Select Bibliography -- Index.