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vii Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Epidemic Constitutions 1 1. “A Rude Place and an Unpolisht Man”: William Penn and the Nature of Pennsylvania 7 2. “An Infancy of Government”: Population, Authority, and the Problem of Proprietorship 21 3. “A Suitable Charity or an Effectual Security”: Community, Contagion, and the Care of Strangers 33 4. “A Body Corporate and Politick”: Association, Interest, and Improvement in a Provincial City 57 5. “Improvement in Every Part of the Healing Art”: Transatlantic Cultures of Medical Improvement 76 6. “A Fine Field for Professional Improvement”: Sites and Sources of Medical Authority in the Revolutionary War 86 7. “In a Yielding State”: Nervous Nationalism in the New Republic 103 8. “Those Friendly Reciprocities”: Panic and Participation in the Age of Yellow Fever 120 9. “A Matter of Police”: Fever and Betrayal in the Federal Union 135 Conclusion: Looking West from Philadelphia 153 Notes 163 Index 219 ...