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AS IS USUAL WITH ANY PROJECT, I owe thanks to too many people to count. Institutions first: I must mention the generous assistance and friendly atmosphere of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, and especially Sally Bragg, who makes it all function smoothly. Thanks too to the Wellcome Library, London. The ever-reliable British Library, where I have had many happy hours, has made this book possible. Finally, the Public Records Office, the London Guildhall, the archivists at St. Bart’s and the East London Hospital , and the interlibrary loan staff at the University of Florida all contributed to this project, as did material support from the University of Florida and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Of my colleagues, all of whom are important sources of stimulation and support, I would like to especially thank the other Victorianists at the University of Florida: Julian Wolfreys, Chris Snodgrass, and Alistair Duckworth. My other colleagues and friends Susan Hegeman, Phil Wegner, Maude Hines, Nancy Reisman, Stephanie Smith, John Murchek, Sid Dobrin, Kim Emery, Terry Harpold, Roger Beebe, Apollo Amoko, Leah Rosenberg, Pat Craddock, Martha Bryant, Maureen Turim, and Brandon Kershner have given me invaluable intellectual, social, and emotional nourishment. Special thanks to Kenneth Kidd, who read and commented on an early stage of the manuscript, and for his unfailing enthusiasm and sense of fun, and to Tace Hedrick whose friendship and conversation sustain me. Special thanks also to the Chair of the Department of English, John Leavey, whose support has been important to this project . Of colleagues outside the University of Florida, I must thank Michael Levenson , who introduced me to London and sparked my interest in urbanism. Elizabeth Langland, although now on the other side of the continent, has continued to be a terrific colleague and mentor, as has Jim Kincaid. Of many correspondents ,Talia Shaffer has been a particularly wonderful interlocutor, as have Tim Alborn, Lesley Hall, Steve Sturdy, Ryan Johnson, Susan Zieger, Yopie Prins, David Wayne Thomas, Martha Vicinus, and many others whose comments at conferences or over e-mail have been crucial to my thinking about the xxi A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S larger cholera project. I am particularly grateful to Mark Harrison for his comments on chapters 6 and 7, as well as his general intellectual generosity. Many graduate students have contributed to my thinking and have helped make my intellectual environment a productive one, and I’d like to thank them all, but must single out Meg Norcia, Michelle Sipe, and Heather Milton, and especially Jung Hwa Lee, whose editing assistance was invaluable. This work or work related to it has been presented at a number of conferences and working groups, where many scholars have influenced my thinking. These include the MLA, various Society for the Social History of Medicine and Wellcome conferences, the Victorians’ Institute, the Workshop on Framing and Imagining Disease, the nineteenth-century group at the University of California, Berkeley and the Nineteenth-Century Studies Group at the University of Michigan. Clare Ford Wille and Peter Shahbenderian, Londonists extraordinaires, have shared their home and their lives with me, put me on the right trains, loaned me umbrellas, and supported this and the larger cholera project unreservedly for the seemingly endless series of summer research visits it has taken to see it completed. Long phone conversations with family and friends Angela Geitner, Meryl Strichartz, and Nicolet de Rose took me over the rough spots and put things in perspective. And finally, I must thank Gustavo Verdesio, for knowing when to laugh with me, when to laugh at me, when not to laugh at all—and for many other things and much more than I can easily say. Portions of chapters 2 and 3 and of the Afterword have appeared in “Mapping the Social Body of Nineteenth Century London,” in Imagined Londons , edited by Pamela K. Gilbert, State University of New York Press, 2002. Part of chapter 4 was published as “‘Scarcely To Be Described’: Urban Extremes as Real Spaces and Mythic Places in the London Cholera Epidemic of 1854,” Nineteenth Century Studies 14 (2000): 149–72. Material from chapter 5 appears in “Islands in a Filthy Stream: Medical Mapping, The Thames, and the Body in Our Mutual Friend,” Filth, edited by William Cohen and Ryan Johnson, University of Minnesota Press, copyright 2004 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota. Finally, materials from chapters 6 and 7 are forthcoming in “Mapping...