How Antibiotics Changed the World (How Science Changed the World) - Hardcover

Allman, Toney

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1682824055 ISBN 13: 9781682824054

Publisher: Referencepoint Press, 2018

Synopsis

Antibiotics revolutionized the practice of medicine. Deadly diseases and infections became easily curable and untold millions are alive because of antibiotics. The ways industry, agriculture, and medical research function and have developed have been transformed as well. Nevertheless, the bacterial world's response to antibiotics is as dramatic as the results of the human discovery. The rise of drug resistant bacteria is challenging the medical world as never before and threatening the advent of a post-antibiotic era that scientists are determined to forestall.

About this title

From School Library Journal

Gr 9 Up-An illustrated time line of important events opens each title, followed by a short introductory chapter typically relating the topic to current events-for example, in Electricity, the devastating effects of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico. Subsequent chapters review the history of development in each field, with digressions to highlight major figures, inventions, and social changes, both positive (robotic drones helping to prevent wild animal poaching in nations across Africa) and negative (the impact of fossil fuel consumption by automobiles on global climate change). Long blocks of text are broken up by pull-quote boxes and a range of helpful illustrations, as well as short companion articles on salient topics, such as the HTML markup language or the dark side of social media in Internet. Considerable source notes and two pages of suggested reading close each volume. ­VERDICT Well-researched and engagingly written, excellent resources for independent reading and focused inquiry.α(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

About this edition

• Publisher: Referencepoint Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1682824055
• ISBN 13: 9781682824054
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 80