Chapter One Medical History in Three Themes: Chinese epidemiology, the geographic imagination, and a biography of wenbing Warm diseases 29 --
Chapter Two A Deep History of the Chinese Geographic Imagination: The five directions, northwest-southeast dichotomy, and southern shift 76 --
Chapter Three The Geographic Imagination in Ming Medicine: Northern purgatives, southern restoratives, and conceptions of north and south 130 --
Chapter Four Ming Medical Frontiers: Diseases of the Far South, new conceptions of contagion 179 --
Chapter Five Ming Medical Skepticism: Epidemiological Crisis, Cosmological Criticism 238 --
Chapter Six Matters of Place: Epistemological Divisions, Genealogical Divergence 273 --
Chapter Seven Emergence of Traditions: The nineteenth-century genealogy and geography of Warm diseases 331.