Antibiotics : What Everyone Needs to Know (R) (9780190663407)

A STIRRING EXAMINATION OF A LOOMING CRISIS

Virtually everyone has taken antibiotics. They can be lifesavers - or they can be useless. But what are they? How are they used? And what happens as the effectiveness of antibiotics begins to decline?

Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) examines the personal and societal implications of our planet's most important - and arguably most overused - medications. In a question-and-answer format, it unpacks the most complicated aspects of this issue, including:

* How antibiotics are used (and overused) in humans, plants, and livestock
* The consequences to date, and the potential crisis ahead, as overuse of existing antibiotics breeds new resistance in bacteria
* How the globalized world enables antibiotic resistance more quickly
* Collateral damage, individually and societally, of antibiotic use
* The difficult decisions ahead related to medical care and the food system

Grounded in the latest scientific research and translated for general readers, Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) offers a clear-eyed overview of where we are, and what the future holds, as antibiotics lose their might.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 408 pages
• Dimensions 140 x 210 x 29mm | 456g
• Publication date 03 Jun 2019
• Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0190663405
• ISBN13 9780190663407
• Bestsellers rank 1,681,560

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