Chapter 1 Introduction: The Challenge of the Epidemic Corpse

Chapter 2 Failed Ritual? Medieval Papal Funerals and the Death of Clement VI (1352)

Chapter 3 Fear and the Corpse: Cholera and Plague Riots Compared

Chapter 4 Bloeming-Typhoidtein: Epidemic Jingoism and the Typhoid Corpse in South Africa

Chapter 5 Suspicious Corpses: Body Dumping and Plague in Colonial Hong Kong

Chapter 6 Composing and Decomposing Bodies: Visualizing Death and Disease in an Era of Global War, Pestilence, and Famine, 1913–1923

Chapter 7 Shrouded Corpses, Walking Cadavers: The Shifting of ‘the Choleras’ in Depictions of Southeastern Captivity

Chapter 8 The Burial Pit as Bio-historical Archive