| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Map of Asia and the East Indies, 1875 | 2 |
| Map of Philippine Provinces and Principal Islands, 1890 | 4 |
| Introduction: Dimensions of the Crisis | 6 |
| Ch. 1 | Probability of Contact | 17 |
| Ch. 2 | Susceptibility | 45 |
| Ch. 3 | Venereal Disease: Evolution of a Social Problem | 69 |
| Ch. 4 | Smallpox: Failure of the Health Care System | 94 |
| Ch. 5 | Beriberi: Fallout from Cash Cropping | 118 |
| Ch. 6 | Malaria: Disequilibrium in the Total Environment | 142 |
| Ch. 7 | Cholera: The Island World as an Epidemiological Unit | 164 |
| Conclusion: Intervention and Disease | 185 |
| Abbreviations Used in the Notes | 191 |
| Notes | 193 |
| Bibliography | 247 |
| Index | 267 |
