Introduction: Interdisciplinary epidemics: illness narratives in American literature, disability studies, and the medical humanities -- Yellow fever: early American illness narratives (or the lack thereof) -- "Pale horse, pale rider": the forgotten 1918 influenza pandemic and the role of literature in illness narratives -- Mid-twentieth century polio memoirs: the beginnings of the old genre -- The chronically ill and stigmatized body: HIV and AIDS -- "Fear-bola": constructions of contagion -- The future of the fields and of twenty-first-century illness narratives.
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