Author: H. W. Conn
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387036892
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
The Story of Germ Life
Microbes
Author: Phillip K. Peterson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1633886352
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1633886352
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
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.
The Story of Germ Life
Author: H. W. Conn
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
"The Story of Germ Life" by H. W. Conn is a bacteriology book that begins with a discussion of the nature of bacteria. The book shows their position on the scale of plant and animal life. The middle chapters describe the functions of bacteria in the arts, dairy, and agriculture. The final chapters discuss the relation of bacteria to disease and the methods by which the new and growing science of preventive medicine combats and counteracts their dangerous powers.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
"The Story of Germ Life" by H. W. Conn is a bacteriology book that begins with a discussion of the nature of bacteria. The book shows their position on the scale of plant and animal life. The middle chapters describe the functions of bacteria in the arts, dairy, and agriculture. The final chapters discuss the relation of bacteria to disease and the methods by which the new and growing science of preventive medicine combats and counteracts their dangerous powers.
The Story of Germ Life
Author: Herbert William Conn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bacteriology
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bacteriology
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Germ Stories
Author: Arthur Kornberg
Publisher: University Science Books
ISBN: 9781891389511
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Bringing the microscopic world to life, this book has richly imaginative narrations with rendered art and colour photographs.
Publisher: University Science Books
ISBN: 9781891389511
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Bringing the microscopic world to life, this book has richly imaginative narrations with rendered art and colour photographs.
The Secret Life of Germs
Author: Philip M. Tierno
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743421881
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Traces the history of germs, discussing how germs have been viewed and treated throughout time and explains why germs now pose an even greater risk to mankind than ever before.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743421881
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Traces the history of germs, discussing how germs have been viewed and treated throughout time and explains why germs now pose an even greater risk to mankind than ever before.
The Gospel of Germs
Author: Nancy Tomes
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674357082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Shows how the scientific knowledge about the role of microorganisms in disease made its way into American popular culture.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674357082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Shows how the scientific knowledge about the role of microorganisms in disease made its way into American popular culture.
The Hand Book
Author: Miryam Z. Wahrman
Publisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1611689554
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Handwashing, as part of basic hygiene, is a no-brainer. Whenever there's an outbreak of a contagious disease, we are advised that the first line of defense is proper handwashing. Nonetheless, many people, including healthcare workers, ignore this advice and routinely fail to wash their hands. Those who neglect to follow proper handwashing protocols put us at risk for serious disease - and even death. In this well-researched book, Wahrman discusses the microbes that live among us, both benign and malevolent. She looks at how ancient cultures dealt with disease and hygiene and how scientific developments led to the germ theory, which laid the foundation for modern hygiene. She investigates hand hygiene in clinical settings, where lapses by medical professionals can lead to serious, even deadly, complications. She explains how microbes found on environmental surfaces can transmit disease and offers strategies to decrease transmission from person to person. The book's final chapter explores initiatives for grappling with ever more complex microbial issues, such as drug resistance and the dangers of residing in an interconnected world, and presents practical advice for hand hygiene and reducing infection. With chapters that conclude with handy reference lists, The Hand Book serves as a road map to safer hands and better hygiene and health. It is essential reading for the general public, healthcare professionals, educators, parents, community leaders, and politicians.
Publisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1611689554
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Handwashing, as part of basic hygiene, is a no-brainer. Whenever there's an outbreak of a contagious disease, we are advised that the first line of defense is proper handwashing. Nonetheless, many people, including healthcare workers, ignore this advice and routinely fail to wash their hands. Those who neglect to follow proper handwashing protocols put us at risk for serious disease - and even death. In this well-researched book, Wahrman discusses the microbes that live among us, both benign and malevolent. She looks at how ancient cultures dealt with disease and hygiene and how scientific developments led to the germ theory, which laid the foundation for modern hygiene. She investigates hand hygiene in clinical settings, where lapses by medical professionals can lead to serious, even deadly, complications. She explains how microbes found on environmental surfaces can transmit disease and offers strategies to decrease transmission from person to person. The book's final chapter explores initiatives for grappling with ever more complex microbial issues, such as drug resistance and the dangers of residing in an interconnected world, and presents practical advice for hand hygiene and reducing infection. With chapters that conclude with handy reference lists, The Hand Book serves as a road map to safer hands and better hygiene and health. It is essential reading for the general public, healthcare professionals, educators, parents, community leaders, and politicians.
Germ Hunter
Author: Elaine Marie Alphin
Publisher: LernerClassroom
ISBN: 0876149298
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Chronicles the life of Pasteur from his childhood in early nineteenth-century France to his years searching for the reasons behind diseases and how to cure them.
Publisher: LernerClassroom
ISBN: 0876149298
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Chronicles the life of Pasteur from his childhood in early nineteenth-century France to his years searching for the reasons behind diseases and how to cure them.
Germs
Author: Richard Wollheim
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 168137496X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A brilliant, sinuous exploration of family and childhood memory by one of the most original British philosophers of the twentieth century. Germs is about first things, the seeds from which a life grows, as well as about the illnesses it incurs, the damage it sustains. Written at the end of his life by Richard Wollheim, one of the major philosophers of the late twentieth century, the book is not the usual story of growing up and getting on but a brilliant recovery and evocation of childhood consciousness and unconsciousness, an eerily precise rendering of that primitive, formative world we all come from in which we do not know either the world or ourselves for sure, and things—houses, clothes, meals, parents—loom large around us, as indispensable as they are out of our control. Richard Wollheim’s remarkably original memoir is a disturbing, enthralling, dispassionate but also deeply personal depiction of a child standing, fascinated and fearful, on the threshold of individual life.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 168137496X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A brilliant, sinuous exploration of family and childhood memory by one of the most original British philosophers of the twentieth century. Germs is about first things, the seeds from which a life grows, as well as about the illnesses it incurs, the damage it sustains. Written at the end of his life by Richard Wollheim, one of the major philosophers of the late twentieth century, the book is not the usual story of growing up and getting on but a brilliant recovery and evocation of childhood consciousness and unconsciousness, an eerily precise rendering of that primitive, formative world we all come from in which we do not know either the world or ourselves for sure, and things—houses, clothes, meals, parents—loom large around us, as indispensable as they are out of our control. Richard Wollheim’s remarkably original memoir is a disturbing, enthralling, dispassionate but also deeply personal depiction of a child standing, fascinated and fearful, on the threshold of individual life.