Gasping for Air
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Gasping for Air

How Breathing Is Killing Us and What We Can Do about It

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eBook - ePub

Gasping for Air

How Breathing Is Killing Us and What We Can Do about It

About this book

Breathing is a continuous battle between our need for oxygen and forces in nature that attack our lungs. Three hundred thousand Americans will die of respiratory diseases this year. Gasping for Air is the dramatic story of how infections, toxins, carcinogens, and air pollution strike against one of our basic body functions. The book also describes how we come into the struggle with diseases like asthma, cystic fibrosis, and sleep apnea, which make us vulnerable to assaults on breathing from without and within.

We have powerful weapons to defend breathing. Medical science, public health, engineering, and business, all play important roles in the effort to support breathing. Yet, Gasping for Air also reminds readers how breathing support has been at the eye of the storm in many ethical dilemmas of modern healthcare. Here, Kevin Glynn, an experienced pulmonologist and lifelong asthma sufferer tells stories about the third most common cause of premature deaths in the developed world, describes lethal forces in Nature (infections, genetic predispositions) and from human activities (dusty occupations, tobacco smoking, chemical toxins, drug overdoses) that threaten to suffocate us, and offers sage advice for how to prevent and address those threats and the damage they cause.

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Information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Year
2017
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781442246249
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Diseases & Allergies

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Timeline
  3. Author’s Note
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I: Worldwide Plagues
  6. Chapter 1: The Disease That Medicine Never Cured
  7. Chapter 2: Captains of the Men of Death
  8. Chapter 3: They Stacked Caskets in the Halls
  9. Chapter 4: The Man in the Iron Lung
  10. Chapter 5: Products of Parasitic Beings
  11. Chapter 6: Some Like it Hot
  12. Chapter 7: The Virus with No Name
  13. Part II: Killer Air
  14. Chapter 8: Suffocating Work
  15. Chapter 9: Code Red
  16. Chapter 10: Cleopatra Reincarnate
  17. Chapter 11: Smoking Beagles
  18. Chapter 12: Dad, and the Werewolf
  19. Chapter 13: The Lethal Brown Cloud
  20. Part III: Vulnerable Breathing
  21. Chapter 14: Panting for Air
  22. Chapter 15: Lungs That Do Not Collapse
  23. Chapter 16: The Great Masquerader
  24. Chapter 17: Cells Like Elongated Crescents
  25. Chapter 18: The Pump and the Bellows
  26. Chapter 19: That Sleep of Death
  27. Chapter 20: The First Breaths
  28. Part IV: Breathing Defends
  29. Chapter 21: Around the World on Oxygen
  30. Chapter 22: Thank You for My Life
  31. Part V: Breathing Adapts
  32. Chapter 23: I Wouldn’t Want That for Myself
  33. Chapter 23: A Science of Uncertainty
  34. Notes
  35. Selected bibliography
  36. Acknowledgments

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