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ISBN: 9780190663407
Series: What Everyone Needs to Know® (WENK)
Antibiotics (Health & Medical)
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ISBN
9780190663407 (10-digit ISBN: 0190663405)
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- A scientifically rigorous overview of antibiotics, their use, and their looming crisis, written for general readers
- Question-and-answer format provides grounding in the basics of antibiotics, including discovery, manufacturing, industry, and widespread use across humans, plants, and animals
- Detailed explanations of how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics (creating the so-called "superbugs"), plus how these bacteria spread
- Examines future implications for antibiotic-dependent medical procedures, including surgeries and transplantations
- Discusses state of antibiotic use in livestock, including its implications for consumers and societies and the recent WHO recommendations
- Coverage of phage therapy and non-antibiotic infection treatments
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.
The perfect primer for complex current event issues and countries…
Oxford University Press’s What Everyone Needs to Know® (WENTK) series offers a balanced and authoritative primer on complex current event issues and countries, spanning across popular topics and disciplines including Politics, Economics, Sciences, and Religion. WENTKs are written by leading experts in their fields and provide, in a straight-forward question-and-answer format, insight in such a way that students and scholars alike can stay up-to-date on the most important topics leading the discussion today in politics, health, global affairs, and more.
Please note: As this series is not ELT material, these titles are not subject to discount.
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.
- A scientifically rigorous overview of antibiotics, their use, and their looming crisis, written for general readers
- Question-and-answer format provides grounding in the basics of antibiotics, including discovery, manufacturing, industry, and widespread use across humans, plants, and animals
- Detailed explanations of how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics (creating the so-called "superbugs"), plus how these bacteria spread
- Examines future implications for antibiotic-dependent medical procedures, including surgeries and transplantations
- Discusses state of antibiotic use in livestock, including its implications for consumers and societies and the recent WHO recommendations
- Coverage of phage therapy and non-antibiotic infection treatments
Series Description
The perfect primer for complex current event issues and countries…
Oxford University Press’s What Everyone Needs to Know® (WENTK) series offers a balanced and authoritative primer on complex current event issues and countries, spanning across popular topics and disciplines including Politics, Economics, Sciences, and Religion. WENTKs are written by leading experts in their fields and provide, in a straight-forward question-and-answer format, insight in such a way that students and scholars alike can stay up-to-date on the most important topics leading the discussion today in politics, health, global affairs, and more.
Please note: As this series is not ELT material, these titles are not subject to discount.
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