Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: a cloud over history / Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphey, Christopher Sellers -- Ecologies of complexity: tropical environments, African trypanosomiasis, and the science of disease control strategies in British Colonial Africa, 1900-1940 / Helen Tilley -- Natural histories of infectious disease: ecological vision in Twentieth-Century biomedical science / Warwick Anderson -- The scale politics of emerging diseases / Nicholas B. King -- Gender and the economy of health on the Santa Fe Trail / Conevery Bolton Valencis -- Geographies of hope: mining the frontiers of health in Denver and beyond, 1870-1965 / Gregg Mitman -- Living is for everyone: border crossings for community, environment, and health / Giovanna di Chiro -- Mapping a zoonotic disease: Anglo-American efforts to control bovine tuberculosis before World War I / Susan Jones -- Clever microbes: bacteriology and sanitary technology in Manchester and Chicago during the progressive age / Harold Platt -- Harold Knapp and the geography of normal controversy: radioiodine in the historical environment / Scott Kirsch -- The artificial nature of fluoridated water: between nations, knowledge, and material flows / Christopher Sellers -- The Fruits of ill-health: pesticides and workers' bodies in post-World War II California / Linda Nash -- Poisoned food, poisoned uniforms, and anthrax, or, how guerillas die in war / Luise White -- Oral history, subjectivity and environmental reality: occupational health histories in Twentieth-Century Scotland / Ronnie Johnston and Arthur McIvor -- The work of illness: the science and politics of Chernobyl-exposed populations / Adriana Petryna -- Uncertain exposures and the privilege of imperception: activist scientists and race at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / Michelle Murphy -- From Bhopal to the informating of environmentalism: risk communication in historical perspective / Kim Fortun.