Dangerous Miracle
Dangerous Miracle
Dangerous Miracle
Liam Shaw

Dangerous Miracle

A natural history of antibiotics – and how we burned through them

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    Beschrijving

    Riveting … has the essential hallmarks of all good science writing : boundless enthusiasm, ingenious metaphors and the effortless distillation of complex ideas into crisp, clean prose … In combining the passion of Robert Macfarlane with the incisiveness of Patrick Radden Keefe, Shaw has announced himself as a brilliant new voice in science writing

    Riveting … has the essential hallmarks of all good science writing : boundless enthusiasm, ingenious metaphors and the effortless distillation of complex ideas into crisp, clean prose … In combining the passion of Robert Macfarlane with the incisiveness of Patrick Radden Keefe, Shaw has announced himself as a brilliant new voice in science writing

    This history of scientific discovery and corporate greed ... chronicles arguably the most significant technological advance of the 20th centur y ... Shaw’s lively history is a valiant attempt to shine a spotlight on the crisis [of antibiotic resistance] and it's a stark warning of how humanity has squandered a precious resource

    Excellent - a highly readable account of scientific success in the past and Big Pharma's egregious inability to deal with the growing problem of antibiotic resistance

    Everyone needs to know about antibiotics - the good, the bad and the ugly! This is a brilliant history lesson

    A fascinating deep-dive into a medical success story that we take for granted at our peril

    An enjoyable and absolutely essential read . The next global pandemic might not be a virus at all – it could be a drug-resistant bacterium, as antibiotics stop working and common infections turn deadly. As Shaw passionately argues in this compelling history, we urgently need a new approach

    A terrific history of antibiotics ... Superb . He demonstrates an unusual ability to make science seem not only accessible but also beautiful

    Antiobiotics are precious, but we have been reckless with them from the start, argues Liam in Dangerous Miracle , a concise, carefully wrought and engaging history of this essential drug class … Distilling the story of antitbiotics into eleven pithy chapters is not easy, and the strength of Shaw’s approach lies in his choice of the anecdotes that accompany each drug … The point, made vividly throughout this book, is to stop taking them for granted

    In Dangerous Miracle , Liam Shaw traces the rise of modern antibiotics, and foresees their decline amidst the ongoing war between bacteria and antibiotic drugs. The central theme is critically important , but Shaw's book is also tremendously entertaining as he describes the origins and development of many of the 'greatest hit' antibiotics that together have saved millions of lives. Well worth reading

    This enthralling and wonderfully accessibly debut charts the human history of a drug we all rely on but that we are rapidly burning through like a fossil fuel of medicine

    Liam Shaw is a biologist researching the evolution and spread of antibiotic resistance. After a four-year Wellcome funded fellowship at the University of Oxford, he now leads a research group at the University of Bristol. His writing has appeared in the London Review of Books , Morning Star , and Private Eye . Dangerous Miracle is his first book.

    Specificaties

    Uitgever Vintage Publishing
    Verschenen 21 augustus 2025
    Pagina's 352
    Thema Populairwetenschappelijke wetenschap
    Afmetingen 233 x 152 x 26 mm
    Gewicht 432 gr
    EAN 9781847927552
    Bindwijze Paperback
    Taal Engels

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