Antibiotics - What Everyone Needs to Know (R)

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® 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 what the future holds as antibiotics lose their might.

About the author

Mary E. Wilson, M.D., is a renowed leader in global health and infectious diseases who holds academic appointments at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the University of California, San Francisco. She lectures frequently in US and abroad, is widely published, and serves on multiple national and international boards and advisory committees.

Summary

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?

Product details

• Authors: Wilson, Mary E. Wilson, Mary E. (Professor Wilson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780190663414
• ISBN: 978-0-19-066341-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: What Everyone Needs to Know; What Everyone Needs To Know®; What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
• Subjects: Guides > Health > Illnesses, therapies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics