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Gasping for Air
How Breathing Is Killing Us and What We Can Do about It
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2017
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Breathing is a continuous battle between our need for oxygen and forces in nature that attack our lungs. Three hundred thousand Americans will die of respiratory diseases this year. Gasping for Air is the dramatic story of how infections, toxins, carcinogens, and air pollution strike against one of our basic body functions. The book also describes how we come into the struggle with diseases like asthma, cystic fibrosis, and sleep apnea, which make us vulnerable to assaults on breathing from without and within.
We have powerful weapons to defend breathing. Medical science, public health, engineering, and business, all play important roles in the effort to support breathing. Yet, Gasping for Air also reminds readers how breathing support has been at the eye of the storm in many ethical dilemmas of modern healthcare. Here, Kevin Glynn, an experienced pulmonologist and lifelong asthma sufferer tells stories about the third most common cause of premature deaths in the developed world, describes lethal forces in Nature (infections, genetic predispositions) and from human activities (dusty occupations, tobacco smoking, chemical toxins, drug overdoses) that threaten to suffocate us, and offers sage advice for how to prevent and address those threats and the damage they cause.
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Copyright year
2017
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-4623-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-4624-9
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
270
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Timeline No access
Author’s Note No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
Chapter 1 The Disease That Medicine Never Cured No access
Chapter 2 Captains of the Men of Death No access
Chapter 3 They Stacked Caskets in the Halls No access
Chapter 4 The Man in the Iron Lung No access
Chapter 5 Products of Parasitic Beings No access
Chapter 6 Some Like It Hot No access
Chapter 7 The Virus With No Name No access
Chapter 8 Suffocating Work No access
Chapter 9 Code Red No access
Chapter 10 Cleopatra Reincarnate No access
Chapter 11 Smoking Beagles No access
Chapter 12 Dad, and the Werewolf No access
Chapter 13 The Lethal Brown Cloud No access
Chapter 14 Panting for Air No access
Chapter 15 Lungs That Do Not Collapse No access
Chapter 16 The Great Masquerader No access
Chapter 17 Cells Like Elongated Crescents No access
Chapter 18 The Pump and the Bellows No access
Chapter 19 That Sleep of Death No access
Chapter 20 The First Breaths No access
Chapter 21 Around the World on Oxygen No access
Chapter 22 Thank You for My Life No access
Chapter 23 I Wouldn’t Want That for Myself No access
