Man Vs Microbes

Author : Brian Bremner
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781800611153

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Man Versus Microbe: What Will It Take To Win? by Brian Bremner Pdf

The COVID-19 pandemic that swept the planet in the early 2020s killed more than six million, delivered unimaginable human suffering and $22 trillion in lost global growth. We weren't prepared and should have been.Unraveling the secrets of microbes, an invisible parallel universe of tiny life forms all around us, is central to managing the big twenty-first-century challenges of pandemics, bioterrorism, food security and climate change. Scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs and political leaders are racing to decode this biological realm with powerful new tools to extend human lifespans and make the world safer and more prosperous. Yet such technologies need to be handled with care. The price of getting this wrong will be unbearable.Man Versus Microbe is about humanity's competitive, symbiotic and precarious relationship with the microbial world. Brian Bremner (Senior Executive Editor, Bloomberg) offers a book on the exhilarating fields of synthetic biology and genetics, abundant with material on emerging technologies to deepen one's understanding of how virus hunters chase bugs or how geneticists unlock the workings of a microbe's constituent DNA. This book is for readers who want to learn more about humanity's fight to contain future pandemics and better understand the risks and opportunities of living in the world of microbes. After navigating through a disruptive pandemic, we are all amateur epidemiologists now.

Author : Arno Karlen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-05-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780684822709

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Man and Microbes by Arno Karlen Pdf

A noted medical historian places recent outbreaks of deadly diseases in historical perspective, with accounts of other alarming and recurring diseases throughout history and of the ways in which humans have adapted. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

Author : John Raymond Postgate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1405075750

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Microbes and Man by John Raymond Postgate Pdf

Author : Nicholas Kopeloff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Bacteria
ISBN : UOM:39015000825201

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Man Vs. Microbes by Nicholas Kopeloff Pdf

Author : John Raymond Postgate
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-02-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521665797

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Microbes and Man by John Raymond Postgate Pdf

A popular account of the invisible world of microbes and their impact on mankind.

Author : Robert William Reid
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Germ theory of disease
ISBN : UCAL:B4499369

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Microbes and Men by Robert William Reid Pdf

Author : Madeline Drexler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1125923228

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What You Need to Know about Infectious Disease by Madeline Drexler Pdf

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health in the 21st Century
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309185547

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Microbial Threats to Health by Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health in the 21st Century Pdf

Infectious diseases are a global hazard that puts every nation and every person at risk. The recent SARS outbreak is a prime example. Knowing neither geographic nor political borders, often arriving silently and lethally, microbial pathogens constitute a grave threat to the health of humans. Indeed, a majority of countries recently identified the spread of infectious disease as the greatest global problem they confront. Throughout history, humans have struggled to control both the causes and consequences of infectious diseases and we will continue to do so into the foreseeable future. Following up on a high-profile 1992 report from the Institute of Medicine, Microbial Threats to Health examines the current state of knowledge and policy pertaining to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases from around the globe. It examines the spectrum of microbial threats, factors in disease emergence, and the ultimate capacity of the United States to meet the challenges posed by microbial threats to human health. From the impact of war or technology on disease emergence to the development of enhanced disease surveillance and vaccine strategies, Microbial Threats to Health contains valuable information for researchers, students, health care providers, policymakers, public health officials. and the interested public.

Author : Abigail A. Salyers,Dixie D. Whitt
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1555812988

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Revenge of the Microbes by Abigail A. Salyers,Dixie D. Whitt Pdf

A single source of answers to questions average people are asking. Appeals to a diverse readership, including biologists, doctors, teachers, students, lawyers, environmentalists, and average citizens.

Author : Nancy Tomes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674257146

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The Gospel of Germs by Nancy Tomes Pdf

AIDS. Ebola. "Killer microbes." All around us the alarms are going off, warning of the danger of new, deadly diseases. And yet, as Nancy Tomes reminds us in her absorbing book, this is really nothing new. A remarkable work of medical and cultural history, The Gospel of Germs takes us back to the first great "germ panic" in American history, which peaked in the early 1900s, to explore the origins of our modern disease consciousness. Little more than a hundred years ago, ordinary Americans had no idea that many deadly ailments were the work of microorganisms, let alone that their own behavior spread such diseases. The Gospel of Germs shows how the revolutionary findings of late nineteenth-century bacteriology made their way from the laboratory to the lavatory and kitchen, with public health reformers spreading the word and women taking up the battle on the domestic front. Drawing on a wealth of advice books, patent applications, advertisements, and oral histories, Tomes traces the new awareness of the microbe as it radiated outward from middle-class homes into the world of American business and crossed the lines of class, gender, ethnicity, and race. Just as we take some of the weapons in this germ war for granted--fixtures as familiar as the white porcelain toilet, the window screen, the refrigerator, and the vacuum cleaner--so we rarely think of the drastic measures deployed against disease in the dangerous old days before antibiotics. But, as Tomes notes, many of the hygiene rules first popularized in those days remain the foundation of infectious disease control today. Her work offers a timely look into the history of our long-standing obsession with germs, its impact on twentieth-century culture and society, and its troubling new relevance to our own lives.

Author : Phillip K. Peterson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781633886353

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Microbes by Phillip K. Peterson Pdf

This is the only book that tells both sides of the story of germs: that they are critically important for our health and that the dangers of emerging pathogens continue to wreak havoc in our bodies and around the world. With straight-forward and engaging writing, infectious diseases physician Phillip Peterson surveys how our understanding of viruses has changed throughout history, from early plagues and pandemics to more recent outbreaks like HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Zika, and Coronavirus. Microbes also takes on contemporary issues like the importance of vaccinations in the face of the growing anti-vaxxer movement, as well as the rise of cutting-edge health treatments like fecal transplants. Peterson relays his first-hand experience dealing with an unprecedented emergence of new microbial threats. Yet at the same time he has witnessed the astounding recent discoveries of the crucial role of the microbes that colonize our body surfaces in human health. Microbes explains for general readers where these germs came from, what they do to and for us, and what can be done to stop the bad actors and foster the benefactors.

Author : Dorothy H. Crawford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199561445

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Deadly Companions by Dorothy H. Crawford Pdf

The story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. Combining tales of devastating epidemics with accessible science and fascinating history, Deadly Companions reveals how closely microbes have evolved with us over the millennia, shaping human culture through infection, disease, and deadly pandemic.

Author : Martin Blaser
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781443420259

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Missing Microbes by Martin Blaser Pdf

A critical call to arms about the harmful effects of some of our most revered modern medical practices. Welcome to the wilds of the microbiome, where for hundreds of thousands of years bacterial and human cells have co-existed in a peaceful symbiosis that is responsible for the equilibrium and health of our bodies. But now this invisible Eden is under assault. Our overreliance on medical advances such as antibiotics and Cesarean sections is threatening the extinction of these irreplaceable microbes and leading to severe health problems. In Missing Microbes, Dr. Martin Blaser goes back to the discovery of antibiotics, which ushered in a golden age of medicine, and traces how our subsequent overuse of these supposed wonder drugs has left its mark on our systems and contributed to the rise of what Blaser calls our modern plagues: obesity, asthma, allergies, diabetes and certain forms of cancer. Blaser's studies suggest that antibiotic use during early childhood poses the greatest risk to long-term health; alarmingly, American children receive on average seventeen courses of antibiotics before they are twenty years old. His studies also suggest that C-sections deprive babies of important contact with their mothers' microbiomes. Taking us into the lab to explain his groundbreaking studies, Blaser not only provides elegant support for his theories but guides us toward avoiding even more catastrophic health problems in the future.

Author : Kenneth Murphy,Paul Travers,Mark Walport,Peter Walter
Publisher : Garland Science
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0815344570

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Janeway's Immunobiology by Kenneth Murphy,Paul Travers,Mark Walport,Peter Walter Pdf

The Janeway's Immunobiology CD-ROM, Immunobiology Interactive, is included with each book, and can be purchased separately. It contains animations and videos with voiceover narration, as well as the figures from the text for presentation purposes.

Author : Bruce Alberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cytology
ISBN : 0815332181

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Molecular Biology of The Cell by Bruce Alberts Pdf