Chapter 1 The Making of a Modern Endemic: An Introduction

Chapter 2 Contagion and Anarchy: Matthew Arnold and the Disease of Modern Life

Chapter 3 Dark Zones: The Ebola Body as a Configuration of Horror

Chapter 4 Needles and Bullets: Media Theory, Medicine, and Propaganda, 1910–1940

Chapter 5 Immunizing the Social Network: Public Health and the “Troubled Teenager” in Digital Media

Chapter 6 The Writing Is on the Wall: Epidemiology and the Anticipated Ends of Social Media

Chapter 7 Intestine Disorder: Neoliberalism and Biomial Politics

Chapter 8 The Political Without Guarantees: Contagious Police Shootings, Neuroscientific Cultural Imaginaries, and Neuroscientific Futures

Chapter 9 Infecting Humanness: A Critique of the Autonomous Self in Contagion

Chapter 10 Thinking like a Virus: Contagion, Postmodernist Epistemology, and the Ethics of Belief

Chapter 11 Figuring the Other Within: The Gendered Underpinnings of Germ Narratives

Chapter 12 Dying a Natural Death: Ethics and Political Activism for Endemic Infectious Disease