Dana Press
Titles appearing in SciTech Book News — December 2006
Resistance; the human struggle against infection.
Gualde, Norbert. Trans. by Steven Rendall.
Dana Press, ©2006 219 p. $25.00 QR177
1-932594-00-0
The somewhat utopian predictions that infectious disease could be effectively wiped out, widespread in government and medical circles not so many years ago, have become muted in the face of AIDS and the emergence of newer infectious threats. Gualde (immunology, U. Victor Segalen, France) gives us a tour both of the new landscape of global infectious disease and of the long history of human interactions with micro-organisms, presenting the basic science in a manner understandable to the general reader and exploring the societal implications of coming epidemics. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
