Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World - Rilegato

Sachs, Jessica Snyder

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ISBN 10: 0809050633 ISBN 13: 9780809050635

Casa editrice: Hill & Wang Pub, 2007

Riassunto

Making Peace with Microbes
 
Public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have brought about historic increases in the human life span; they have also unintentionally produced new health crises by disrupting the intimate, age-old balance between humans and the microorganisms that inhabit our bodies and our environment. As a result, antibiotic resistance now ranks among the gravest medical problems of modern times. Good Germs, Bad Germs addresses not only this issue but also what has become known as the “hygiene hypothesis”—  an argument that links the over-sanitation of modern life to now-epidemic increases in immune and other disorders. In telling the story of what went terribly wrong in our war on germs, Jessica Snyder Sachs explores our emerging understanding of the symbiotic relationship between the human body and its resident microbes—which outnumber its human cells by a factor of nine to one! The book also offers a hopeful look into a future in which antibiotics will be designed and used more wisely, and beyond that, to a day when we may replace antibacterial drugs and cleansers with bacterial ones—each custom-designed for maximum health benefits.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Jessica Snyder Sachs is a freelance science writer. Her first book, Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death, was published in 2001. She lives in New Jersey.

Product Description:

Book by Sachs Jessica Snyder

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Hill & Wang Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0809050633
• ISBN 13: 9780809050635
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 290