Gwyn Campbell is Founding Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, Canada.
Eva-Maria Knoll is a researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria.

1. Introduction

Eva-Maria Knoll and Gwyn Campbell

2. The Evolution and Spread of Major Human Diseases in the Indian Ocean World

Monica H. Green and Lori Jones

3. The 'Frankish Disease' and its Treatments in the Indian Ocean World

Anna Winterbottom

4. Reconsidering the Early History of Leprosy in Light of Advances in Paleopathology

Eric Strahorn

5. Climate, Weather and Pestilence in the Philippines since the Sixteenth Century

James Warren

6. Malaria in Precolonial Malagasy History

Gwyn Campbell

7. Disease Alcohol Consumption, and Excise in Nineteenth-Century British India

Peter Hynd

8. European Sailors, Alcohol and Cholera in Nineteenth-Century India

Manikarnika Dutta

9. Chikungunya and Epidemic Disease in the Indian Ocean World

Edward A. Alpers

10. Challenging Chikungunya: Resistance to Public Health Measures and Etiology during the 2005-2007 Epidemic in Réunion

Karine Aasgaard Jansen

11. Inherited without History? Maldive Fever and its Aftermath

Eva-Maria Knoll