Table of Contents

List of Figures ix
List of Abbreviations xiii
Acknowledgments xv

Introduction 1
1 Plague Between Visibility and the Unseen 19
2 Disinfecting the City 59
3 Quarantine Frames 93
4 The Global War Against the Rat 121
5 Plague Masks 153
Conclusion 179

Notes 183
Bibliography 253
Index 295

About the Author

Christos Lynteris is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews and coauthor of Sulphuric Utopias (MIT Press).