D. Ann Herring is Professor of Anthropology at McMaster University, Canada. Alan C. Swedlund is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of Contributors1 Plagues and Epidemics in Anthropological PerspectiveD. Ann Herring, McMaster University, Canada, and Alan C. Swedlund, University ofMassachusetts, Amherst2 Ecosyndemics: Global Warming and the Coming Plaguesof the Twenty-first CenturyMerrill Singer, University of Connecticut3 Pressing Plagues: On the Mediated Communicability ofEpidemicsCharles L. Briggs, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley4 On Creating Epidemics, Plagues, and Other WartimeAlarums and Excursions: Enumerating versus EstimatingCivilian Mortality in IraqJames Trostle, Trinity College, Connecticut5 Avian Influenza and the Third Epidemiological TransitionRon Barrett, Macalester College6 Deconstructing an Epidemic: Cholera in GibraltarLawrence A. Sawchuk, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Canada7 The End of a Plague? Tuberculosis in New ZealandJudith Littleton, University ofAuckland, Julie Park, University of Auckland, and Linda Bryder, University of Auckland8 Epidemics and Time: Influenza and Tuberculosis duringand after the 1918-1919 PandemicAndrew Noymer, University of California, Irvine, and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria9 Everyday Mortality in the Time of Plague: OrdinaryPeople in Massachusetts before and during the 1918Influenza EpidemicAlan C. Swedlund, University of Massachusetts, Amherst10 The Coming Plague of Avian InfluenzaD. Ann Herring and Stacy Lockerbie, McMaster University, Canada11 Past into Present: History and the Making of Knowledgeabout HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal PeopleMary-Ellen Kelm, Simon Fraser University, Canada12 Accounting for Epidemics: Mathematical Modeling andAnthropologySteven M. Goodreau, University of Washington13 Social Inequalities and Dengue Transmission in LatinAmericaArachu Castro, Harvard University, Yasmin Khawja, Yeshiva University, USA, and James Johnston, University of British Columbia, Canada14 From Plague, an Epidemic Comes: Recounting Disease asContamination and ConfigurationWarwick Anderson, University of Sydney15 Making Plagues Visible: Yellow Fever, Hookworm, andChagas' Disease, 1900-1950Ilana Lowy, CNRS Paris16 Metaphors of Malaria Eradication in Cold War MexicoMarcos Cueto, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia17 "Steady with Custom": Mediating HIV Prevention in theTrobriand Islands, Papua New GuineaKatherine Lepani, Australian National University18 Explaining Kuru: Three Ways to Think about an EpidemicShirley Lindenbaum, City University of New YorkReferencesIndex

interesting collection of nineteen essays ... admirably supported by cited literature that is largely scholarly but also includes articles in the popular press. The Biologist A welcome progression of ideas from several fields that come together as a medical anthropology ... The editors of Plagues and Epidemics have presented key concerns for current considerations, while having strong implications for the future of medical anthropology. Anthropological Notebooks