Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1: How it all began
2: Microbes and our hunter gatherer ancestors
3: Microbes exploit the sedentary lifestyle
4: Microbes, crowds and poverty
5: Microbes go global
6: Microbes, famine and starvation
7: Science intervenes
8: Current problems
Conclusions
Glossary
Index

About the Author

Dorothy Crawford is Professor of Medical Microbiology at the University of Edinburgh, where she is also Assistant Principal for the Public Understanding of Medicine. She was awarded an OBE in 2005 for services to medicine and higher education.

Books by the same author:
The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses

Reviews

`Review from previous edition Lucid and authoritative... crisply written narrative.'
Wendy Moore, Sunday Telegraph
`An excellent explanatin of what wen t wrong for most of human history.'
Chemistry and Industry 11/08/2008
`Fascinating... Deadly Companions is authoritative, detailed and - despite its gruesome subject - never sensational.'
PD Smith, The Guardian