Infectious : a doctor's eye-opening insights into contagious diseases / Frank Bowden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowden, Frank, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communicable diseases--Prevention.

Communicable diseases.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia : NewSouth, 2016.

Summary:

A woman's innocuous cold symptoms mask a debilitating rare tick infection. A young man develops shingles then suffers blinding head pain later in life. After years of frustration, a family eradicates head lice forever.

Contents:

Front Cover

About the Author

Dedication

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Author's Note

Introduction

Part I: The Age of Infections

1. Ebola and other Natural Born Killers

2. Taught by an Expert

3. Hard Cold Facts

4. Of Lice and Men

5. A Typical Pneumonia?

Part II: The end of the Age of Antibiotics

6. Just a Sore Throat

7. Antibiotic Mythbusting

8. Resistance is Futile

Part III: First do no Harm

9. Evidence-based Medicine - In Its Place

10. A Spot Diagnosis

11. Lyme is the New Black

12. I'm So Tired my Mind is on the Blink

13. Eleven Grams of Trouble

Notes

Sources

Glossary

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 9, 2017).

ISBN:

9781742247663

1742247660

9781742242293

1742242294

OCLC:

1262669106