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Author Glynn, Kevin, 1936- author.

Title Gasping for air : how breathing is killing us and what we can do about it / Kevin Glynn, MD.

Publication Info. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  616.2 GLY    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  616.2 GLY    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  616.2 GLYNN    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  616.2 GLYNN    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 270 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I. Worldwide plagues -- The disease medicine never cured (tuberculosis) -- Captains of the men of death (bacterial pneumonia) -- They stacked caskets in the halls (influenza) -- The man in the iron lung (polio) -- Products of parasitic beings (fungal infections) -- Some like it hot (legionnaires' disease) -- The virus with no name (SARS, MERS) -- Part II. Killer air -- Suffocating work (occupational diseases) -- Code red (fires and disasters) -- Cleopatra reincarnate (overdoses and toxins) -- Smoking beagles (tobacco smoking) -- Dad, and the werewolf (lung cancer) -- The lethal brown cloud (atmospheric pollution) -- Part III. Vulnerable breathing -- Panting for air (asthma) -- Lungs that do not collapse (COPD) -- The great masquerader (pulmonary blood clots) -- Cells like elongated crescents (genetic breathing disorders) -- The pump and the bellows (the heart and the lungs) -- That sleep if death (sleep-disordered breathing) -- The first breaths (newborn respiratory distress) -- Part IV. Breathing defends -- Around the world on oxygen (respiratory care) -- Thank you for my life (ventilators) -- Part V. Breathing adapts -- I wouldn't want that for myself (ethical dilemmas) -- A science of uncertainty (closing).
Subject Respiratory organs -- Diseases.
Respiratory organs -- Diseases -- Treatment.
Respiratory organs -- Diseases. (OCoLC)fst01095766
Respiratory organs -- Diseases -- Treatment. (OCoLC)fst01095790
Respiratory Tract Diseases. (DNLM)D012140
Respiratory Tract Diseases -- therapy. (DNLM)D012140Q000628
Lung Diseases. (DNLM)D008171
Lung Diseases -- therapy. (DNLM)D008171Q000628
Respiration. (DNLM)D012119
ISBN 9781442246232 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
1442246235 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
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