Originally published in Great Britain in 2023 by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd

Prologue -- Et in suburbia ego -- Part one: East to west: smallpox. "The fresh and kindly pock" -- Safely! Quickly! Pleasantly! -- Part two: West to east: cholera. Proust's travels -- Sans frontières -- Part three: Power and pestilence: plague. The death of rats -- Calamity snaps -- Carbolic -- Departures -- And in the end

"A vibrant cultural history investigating the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama"--Dust jacket flap