Contents -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Illustrations -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1 Merchants of death -- 2 War by other means -- 3 The evils of quarantine -- 4 Quarantine and the empire of free trade -- 5 Yellow fever resurgent -- 6 A stranglehold on the East -- 7 Plague and the global economy -- 8 Protection or protectionism? -- 9 Disease and globalization -- Conclusion Sanitary pasts, sanitary futures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.