Filth and decay : Pneumonic plague hits India and the world ill responds -- Landa-Landa : an Ebola virus epidemic in Zaire proves public health is imperiled by corruption -- Bourgeois physiology : the collapse of all semblances of public health in the former Soviet Socialist Republics -- Preferring anarchy and class disparity : the American public health infrastructure in an age of antigovernmentalism -- Biowar : threatening biological terrorism and public health -- Epilogue : the changing face of public health and future global prophylaxis.
