| Microbe Hunters Contributor(s): de Kruif, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156027771 ISBN-13: 9780156027779 Publisher: Harvest Publications OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2002 Annotation: From the top of today's news, where reoprts of Ebola and HIV loom large, comes the story of microbes, bacteria, and how disease shaoes our everyday lives and society thrives. The superheroes in this scheme are the scientists, bacteriologists, doctors, and medical technicians who wage active war against bacteria. The new Introduction to this book places this history in a thoroughly modern context. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Biology - Medical | Microbiology - Science | Life Sciences - Microbiology |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 96154696 |
| Lexile Measure: 1270 |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.3" W x 8.16" (0.76 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "It manages to delight, and frequently to entrance, old and new readers and] continues to engage our hearts and minds today with an indescribably brand of affectionate sympathy."--F. Gonzalez-Crussi, from the Introduction An international bestseller, translated into eighteen languages, Paul de Kruif's classic account of the first scientists to see and learn about the microscopic world continues to fascinate new readers. This is a timeless dramatization of the scientists, bacteriologists, doctors, and medical technicians who discovered the microbes and invented the vaccines to counter them. De Kruif writes about how seemingly simple but really fundamental discovers of science--for instance, how a microbe was first viewed in a clear drop of rain water, and when, for the first time, Louis Pasteur discovered that a simple vaccine could save a man from the ravages of rabies by attacking the microbes that cause it. |
Contributor Bio(s): de Kruif, Paul: - Paul de Kruif (1890-1971), a bacteriologist and pathologist, was a prolific author on the subject of medical science. He lived in Michigan and taught for many years at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. |