Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1541506 in Books
• Published on: 2001-01-01
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

From the Author
Take it seriously
"One of the best recent books on its subject." Not my comment, but that of Booklist, the magazine the New York Times calls "an acquisitions bible for public and school librarians nationwide". It is the review journal of the American Library Association.

The review says, "Moore provides the facts we should know, rather than the ones we want to hear, about infectious diseases."

I agree.

Customer Reviews

Excellent!
A compelling scientific and social review of modern disease.

READ IT NOW AND BE AFRAID.
This must be the most accessible study available today of a threat to humanity more real in many ways than bombs and bullets,earthquake or hurricane.

If you are planning on going into hospital- read it. If you are considering vaccination for your children- read it. If you want to know why we seem to be getting increasingly "accident-prone" with new outbreaks of disease seemingly ever close to home -read it.

Are we complacent about our considerable success to date in combating infectious disease? Are these Superbugs in fact older organisms than us, more tenacious than we give them credit for, and faster to evolve than we are? If so,what form will the next threat take?

The subject matter of this book could not be more topical. Its style is highly informative but always readable. I urge you to read it.

If humanity's war is to be against infectious disease- ignorance will be no defence.

Readable and informative
As someone who knows very little about medicine I found this book fascinating.

The author writes in a very accessible style, which makes the book 'a good read', while still conveying a wealth of information (and better still, understanding).

The issues covered are serious in the extreme, but (apart from the publisher's blurb!) the book is responsibly written and avoids sensationalism.

It would make thought-provoking reading for anyone who is concerned about present and future threats associated with infectious diseases, including BSE, AIDS, and even the bubonic plague. Although the book restricts itself to human diseases, I found it helped me make sense of recent media coverage of the foot-and-mouth epidemic.