| The Making of a Social Disease |
| Acknowledgments |
| Chronology |
 | Introduction |
| 1. Social Anxiety, Social Disease, and the Question of Contagion |
 | 2. Redemptive Suffering and the Patron Saint of Tuberculosis |
| • | Sanctifying the Fallen Woman: Dumas, Murger, Hugo |
| • | Later Variations on a Romantic Theme |
| • | The Consumptive Heroine as Saint: Thérèse of Lisieux |
| • | Notes |
| 3. “Guerre au bacille!” |
| 4. Interiors |
| 5. Morality and Mortality |
| 6. Le Havre, Tuberculosis Capital of the Nineteenth Century |
| 7. Dissenting Voices |
| Conclusion |
| Selected Bibliography |