Gasping for air : how breathing is killing us and what we can do about it

Glynn, Kevin 1936- (Author).

Summary: Nearly 40 million Americans are affected by breathing disorders and diseases. Gasping ForAir is the compelling story of the continuous conflict between our need to breathe and the environmental forces that oppose us.

Record details

ISBN: 9781442246232
ISBN: 1442246235
ISBN: 9781442246249
Physical Description: print
xviii, 270 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I. Worldwide plagues. The disease medicine never cured (tuberculosis) ; Captains of the men of death (bacterial pneumonia) ; They stacked caskets in the halls (influenza) ; The man in the iron lung (polio) ; Products of parasitic beings (fungal infections) ; Some like it hot (legionnaires' disease) ; The virus with no name (SARS, MERS) -- Part II. Killer air. Suffocating work (occupational diseases) ; Code red (fires and disasters) ; Cleopatra reincarnate (overdoses and toxins) ; Smoking beagles (tobacco smoking) ; Dad, and the werewolf (lung cancer) ; The lethal brown cloud (atmospheric pollution) -- Part III. Vulnerable breathing. Panting for air (asthma) ; Lungs that do not collapse (COPD) ; The great masquerader (pulmonary blood clots) ; Cells like elongated crescents (genetic breathing disorders) ; The pump and the bellows (the heart and the lungs) ; That sleep if death (sleep-disordered breathing) ; The first breaths (newborn respiratory distress) -- Part IV. Breathing defends. Around the world on oxygen (respiratory care) ; Thank you for my life (ventilators) -- Part V. Breathing adapts. I wouldn't want that for myself (ethical dilemmas) ; A science of uncertainty (closing).