Consumptive chic: a history of beauty, fashion, and disease

The approach to illness

The curious case of consumption : a family affair

Exciting consumption : the causes and culture of an illness

Morality, mortality, and romanticizing death

The angel of death in the household

Tragedy and tuberculosis : the Siddons story

Dying to be beautiful : the consumptive chic

The agony of conceit : clothing and consumption

Epilogue: The end of consumptive chic

Concluding the fashion.