List of Maps/Figures Acknowledgments About the Author Series Introduction: Connecting the Past and Present Introduction Chapter 1. Health as a Public Utility--Local Plague Responses in the Christian & Islamic Worlds The 'Horrible Sickness' Charity & Conspiracies: Religion, the Poor, and Persecution of Jews Cairo: Mamluks, Ottomans, and Contagion Florence: Publica Utilitas, Sanitary Policies, and Persecution of the Poor Chapter 2. Cholera, Colonialism, and Class Sanitarians and Sewers: Cholera in Britain, 1830s to 1850s Removing the Pump Handle: The 1854 Broad Street Cholera Outbreak in London Cholera, Containment, and Centralization: Imperial Germany and the United States Reinforcing Inequalities: Cholera in British-controlled India into the 20th century Chapter 3. Controlling the Colonized & Female Bodies-VD Containment, Eugenics, & Experimentation in Metropole & Colony Mosquito Women: Tropical Medicine and Racism in STD Perception Politics of Prostitution: Imperial STD Controls Pregnancy as "STD": Racial Mixing and State Control of Sex The Eugenicists: Race Hygiene, STDs, and Reproductive Rights The "Doomed Race": Eugenics and Experimentation on Oppressed Racial Groups Chapter 4. "Civilizing" Addiction--From Local to Global Inequalities in the Standardization of Opium Controls Buddhism and Bans on Opium: Burma's Drug Controls Prior to British Rule From Medicine to Aphrodisiac to Pathology: Opium, Gender, and Class in China "Politics of the Poppy": Substance Control in the United Kingdom "Lady Britannia and her Children": Substance Control in the British Empire Global Drug Diplomacy: Replicating British Prejudices in Narcotics Control Worldwide Chapter 5. The Global AIDS Crisis--Stigma, Patronage, and Dependency Networks The Stigma of Disease: "Risk Groups" and Constructs of Morality The "Geography of Blame": Haiti as the Origin of HIV? "Out of Africa": Imperialism's Influence on Scientific Thought Good Intentions, Flawed Foundations: USAID, UNAIDS, & NGOs Uganda and TASO: Success, Discrimination, and Dependency Conclusion Index.