ISBN Antibiotics ( What Everyone Needs to Know ) book English Hardcover 304 pages

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: · 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 offers a clear-eyed overview of where we are and what the future holds as antibiotics lose their might.