Gasping for air
Subtitle: how breathing is killing us and what we can do about it
By: Kevin Glynn, MD
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781442246232
Subjects: Respiratory organs; Diseases; Treatment
Description: xviii, 270 pages ; 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Worldwide plagues; title: The disease medicine never cured (tuberculosis); title: Captains of the men of death (bacterial pneumonia); title: They stacked caskets in the halls (influenza); title: The man in the iron lung (polio); title: Products of parasitic beings (fungal infections); title: Some like it hot (legionnaires' disease); title: The virus with no name (SARS, MERS); title: Part II. Killer air; title: Suffocating work (occupational diseases); title: Code red (fires and disasters); title: Cleopatra reincarnate (overdoses and toxins); title: Smoking beagles (tobacco smoking); title: Dad, and the werewolf (lung cancer); title: The lethal brown cloud (atmospheric pollution); title: Part III. Vulnerable breathing; title: Panting for air (asthma); title: Lungs that do not collapse (COPD); title: The great masquerader (pulmonary blood clots); title: Cells like elongated crescents (genetic breathing disorders); title: The pump and the bellows (the heart and the lungs); title: That sleep if death (sleep-disordered breathing); title: The first breaths (newborn respiratory distress); title: Part IV. Breathing defends; title: Around the world on oxygen (respiratory care); title: Thank you for my life (ventilators); title: Part V. Breathing adapts; title: I wouldn't want that for myself (ethical dilemmas); title: A science of uncertainty (closing).