Constructing the Outbreak
Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Epidemics in Media -- Telling the Story of Disease -- Chapter 1. Inoculating the Speckled Monster -- The Boston Press in the 1721 Smallpox Epidemic -- Chapter 2. Philadelphia 1793 -- Yellow Fever Shapes the Town and Nation -- Chapter 3. From Health Seeker to Stigmatized -- The Recognition of TB as Contagious -- Chapter 4. Blaming the Healthy Carrier -- Typhoid Fever and the Case of Mary Mallon -- Chapter 5. "The Kaiser Laughs When you Spread Disease" -- Influenza and the "Great War" in Lawrence, Kansas -- Chapter 6. Racing "The Strangler" -- The Nome Diphtheria Outbreak of 1925 -- Chapter 7. Funding the "Polio Pledge" -- The March of Dimes and the Forgotten Epidemic of 1952 -- Conclusion: Who Lives? Who Dies? Who Tells the Story? -- Concluding Thoughts on Media and Epidemics -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.