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Part I. THE WORLD THE MERCHANTS MADE: Patricians and Politics; Fractions of Capital; Standards of Living; The Threat from Below. Part 2 THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT: Soap and Civilisation; The Politics of Pollution; Troubled Waters; A Varied Diet. Part 3 MATTERS 0F LIFE AND DEATH: Patterns of Mortality; Doctors Dilemmas; The Challenge of Cholera; Empire of Germs. Part 4 THE GREAT EPIDEMIC: From Concealment to Catastrophe; Healing the Sick; Fear and Panic; Guilty Men. Part 5 DIMENSIONS OF INEQUALITY: Income and Class; Social Geography; Occupation and Age; Male and Female. Part 6 REMAKING A WORLD: The Limits of Compassion; Pettenkofer's Last Stand; Poverty and the State; Hamburg, Germany, and the World.