In A Field Guide to Germs, Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Wayne Biddle brings readers face to face with nearly one hundred of the best-known (in terms of prevalence, power, historical importance, or even literary interest) of the ...
Thorough guide to the top 100 potentially unfriendly organisms, microbes, bacteria and germs
A Field Guide to Germs
... A field guide is thus offered as a bulwark against phobia and a reminder that medicine is a socioeconomic activity ... bacteria , living single - cell parasites that may cause disease through runaway infection of their host or the ...
Discusses nearly one-hundred notorious pathogens, describing their physical characteristics, the afflictions they cause, and their impact on folklore, philosophy, and history