Good Germs, Bad Germs Health and Survival in a Bacterial World

Name: Good Germs, Bad Germs Health and Survival in a Bacterial World
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ISBN: 9780809050635

ISBN-10: 0809050633

ISBN-13: 9780809050635

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jessica Snyder Sachs, Jessica S. Sachs

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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…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 10/16/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Seven Key Terms and Conventions	p. ix
Prologue: A Good War Gone Bad
Ricky's Story	p. 3
Daniel's Story	p. 7
Revenge of the Microbes?	p. 9
The War on Germs
From Miasmas to Microbes	p. 15
Germ Theory Reborn	p. 20
The Sanitarians	p. 26
The Search for Magic Bullets	p. 29
Life on Man
The Body as Ecosystem	p. 35
Into the Mouths of Babes	p. 37
Life on the Surface	p. 41
Life on the Inside	p. 44
Bugs in Space	p. 45
Where No Biologist Has Gone Before	p. 49
The Inner Tube of Life	p. 52
Who's the Boss?	p. 59
A New Window Opens	p. 64
Stealth Infections or Innocent Bystanders?	p. 67
Too Clean?
Hair Trigger	p. 73
From Hippocrates to the Hygiene Hypothesis	p. 76
A History of Self-Destruction	p. 81
Children in the Cowshed	p. 83
Teaching Tolerance	p. 87
Innate Immunity	p. 89
The Dirt Vaccine	p. 91
Old Friends	p. 97
Beyond Immunity	p. 101
Bugs on Drugs
A Killer in the Nursery	p. 105
An End to Bacterial Disease?	p. 109
Microscopic Mating Games	p. 111
The Bacterial Superorganism	p. 115
Danger Ignored	p. 116
Old Habits, New Insights	p. 120
Out of the Hospital and into Our Daily Lives	p. 125
The Reservoir Within	p. 131
Resistance by the Shovel	p. 136
Down on the Farm	p. 141
The Antibiotic Paradox	p. 148
Fighting Smarter, Not Harder
The Good Old Days?	p. 151
Preserving Antibiotics: Less Is More	p. 154
Homing In on the Enemy	p. 158
Drugs with On-Off Switches	p. 163
Silencing Resistance	p. 165
Farming Out Resistance	p. 168
Beyond Antibiotics: New Ways to Kill	p. 170
Cocoons and Frog Slime	p. 176
Beyond Lethal Force - Defang, Deflect, and Deploy
Drugs That Disarm	p. 185
Vaccines - Forewarned Is Forearmed	p. 189
Domesticate and Deploy	p. 193
Prescription Probiotics	p. 196
Fighting Fire with Fire	p. 199
A Superhero for the Mouth	p. 203
Transgenic Probiotics	p. 205
Probiotics for Livestock	p. 212
A Second Neolithic Revolution	p. 214
Fixing the Patient
The Dragon Within	p. 219
Enhancing the Bionic Human	p. 225
From Sepsis to Chronic Inflammation	p. 228
Immunobug Immunodrugs	p. 232
Tweaking the Bug	p. 233
Into the Future	p. 234
Coda: Embracing the Microbiome	p. 235
Notes	p. 239
Further Reading	p. 273
Acknowledgments	p. 275
Index	p. 277
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