Prologue: Ground Zero

I. On the Way to Baghdad

1. Videogames, 9/11, and the Anthrax Letters

2. Bioterror and Weapons of Mass Destruction

3. The Cobra Event

4. What Is an Author?

II. Microbes

5. Foreign Bodies

6. Infection, the Metaphor of Globalization

Epilogue: Smallpox Liberalism

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Philipp Sarasin is Professor of Modern History at the University of Zurich.

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