When Antibiotics Fail documents the problem noticed in the mid-eighties of the over-reliance of the medical establishment on antibiotics. Biologist and toxicologist Mark Lappe was among the first medical professionals to sound an alarm aabout the effects of ignoring the natural defenses of the immune system and our tendency to substitute the shot-gun use of broad-spectrum antibiotics. This book describes this tendency for busy physicians to fall into inappropriate use of antibiotics. Lappe explains how antibiotics work, why resistance develops, and what we can do to control bacteria and reactivate the body's own natural defenses.
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Mark Lappe's work in health policy and ethics has focused in recent years on toxic substances and hazard evaluation. His most recent book is Evolutionary Medicine: A Radical Rethinking of the Origins of Disease. He lives in Northern California.
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During the last ten years, the face of the medical world has been transformed by a silent revolution of bacterial diseases with heightened resistance to the most commonly used miracle drugs of our era: the antibiotics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, New York, Swann Committee, Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of Infectious Diseases, Journal of the American Medical Association, National Nosocomial Infection Study, New England Journal of Medicine, Great Britain, Livestock Feed, World War, Joint Commission, Paul Ehrlich, Professor Crump, South Africa New!
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During the last ten years, the face of the medical world has been transformed by a silent revolution of bacterial diseases with heightened resistance to the most commonly used miracle drugs of our era: the antibiotics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
antimicrobic susceptibility test, infectious drug resistance, staph strains, antibiotic practice, antibiotics fail, major antibiotics, bacterial world, microbial world, antibiotic use, multiple antibiotic resistance, skin bacteria Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Swann Committee, Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of Infectious Diseases, Journal of the American Medical Association, National Nosocomial Infection Study, New England Journal of Medicine, Great Britain, Livestock Feed, World War, Joint Commission, Paul Ehrlich, Professor Crump, South Africa New!
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