Missing Microbes

Dr. Martin Blaser has studied the role of bacteria in human disease for over 30 years. He is the director of the Human Microbiome Program at NYU. He founded the Bellevue Literary Review and has been written about in newspapers including The New Yorker, Nature, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. His more than 100 media appearances include The Today Show, GMA, NPR, the BBC, The O'Reilly Factor, and CNN. He lives in New York City.

出版者:Henry Holt and Co.

作者:Martin J. Blaser

页数:288

出版时间:2014-4-8

价格:USD 28.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780805098105

图书标签:科普医学英文原版antibioticsBiology/Microbiology/Medicine经典作品科教文生物

A critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics, from the field's leading expert

Tracing one scientist's journey toward understanding the crucial importance of the microbiome, this revolutionary book will take readers to the forefront of trail-blazing research while revealing the damage that overuse of antibiotics is doing to our health: contributing to the rise of obesity, asthma, diabetes, and certain forms of cancer. In Missing Microbes, Dr. Martin Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome where for hundreds of thousands of years bacterial and human cells have existed in a peaceful symbiosis that is responsible for the health and equilibrium of our body. Now, this invisible eden is being irrevocably damaged by some of our most revered medical advances―antibiotics―threatening the extinction of our irreplaceable microbes with terrible health consequences. Taking us into both the lab and deep into the fields where these troubling effects can be witnessed firsthand, Blaser not only provides cutting edge evidence for the adverse effects of antibiotics, he tells us what we can do to avoid even more catastrophic health problems in the future.

读后感

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在本书的前言中，有一篇作者致中国读者的信，开头就引用了老子的这句话：“祸兮福之所倚，福兮祸之所伏”。用在这本书上，可以说是非常贴切了。 一开始，作者先介绍了微生物及其与人体的关系，在这方面，作者也做了一系列的研究。其中提到，现代社会人体出现的很多问题，比如肥...  

用户评价

读完想见作者本人。。。

听了作者演讲后，读的。书写的比演讲要好。能够面对诺奖，坚持诺奖的对立面，是个厉害的。

领域科普入门科普

科学性，趣味性都一般吧。

科学性，趣味性都一般吧。