Contents
Introduction
1. At Risk: Statistical Participation and the Victorian City
2. Miasmatic Texts: The Body’s Excesses and Effects
3. Contagious Narratives: Distant Causality and the Emergence of Multiplot
4. Radical Solutions, Conservative Systems: Narratives of Circulation and Closure
5. Recollections of the Body: Anatomical Science and Fictions of Wholeness
6. Visions Global and Microbial: Germ Theory and Empire
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index