Table of Contents

1: Toxins are everywhere: how toxins affected history
2: The germ of an idea: a gradual acceleration up to the mid 1850s
3: The Golden Age of Microbiology: Pasteur, Koch and the birth of the toxin concept
4: The anatomy of diphtheria: taming the deadly scourge of childhood
5: Understanding: all toxins fit into three basic mechanisms
6: Why are plague and typhoid so deadly? A further layer of cleverness
7: Deviant biology: weapons, espionage and man's innate inhumanity
8: A more optimistic outcome: from poison to cure and the cell biologist's toolkit
9: Where is toxinology going now? Is there anything new out there?
Further reading
References
Index

About the Author

Alistair Lax is Professor of Cellular Microbiology at King's 3ollege London. His research has focused on the interaction of bacterial toxins with the cells in the host's body. He has published numerous papers in international journals. This is his first book for the wider public.

Reviews

An enjoyable read. I would thoroughly recommend Toxin to students of biology and related subjects.
*Susan Omar, Biologist*