Twelve diseases that changed our world

Preface

1. The legacy of disease : porphyria and hemophilia

2. The Irish potato blight

3. Cholera

4. Smallpox : the speckled monster

5. Bubonic plague

6. Syphilis : the great pox

7. Tuberculosis : the people's plague

8. Malaria

9. Yellow fever : the saffron scourge

10. The great influenza

11. AIDS : the 21st century plague

Epilogue

Notes

Index.