224 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Contents
1. Contemporary complacency -- 2. Lessons from history -- 3. Bacteria and antibiotics -- 4. Antibiotic resistance -- 5. Dead disease -- 6. AIDS -- 7. And then you dissolve -- 8. The viral good guys -- 9. PR is for prions -- 10. The mighty mosquito -- 11. Engineering Armageddon -- 12. The risk of recession