Table of Contents

1: What are viruses?
2: Viruses are everywhere
3: Kill or be killed
4: Emerging virus infections
5: Epidemics and pandemics
6: Persistent viruses
7: Tumour viruses
8: Turning the tables on viruses
9: Viruses past, present and future

About the Author

Professor Crawford took the Robert Irvine Chair of Medical Microbiology at the University of Edinburgh in 1997, headed the school of Biomedical Sciences from 2004-2007, and was appointed Assistant Principal for Public Understanding of Medicine in 2007. She has previously published two books on microbes for a general audience, The Invisible Enemy (OUP, 2000), and more recently Deadly Companions (OUP, 2007). She was elected a Fellow of both the
Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2001 and awarded an OBE for services to medicine and higher education in 2005.

Reviews

a diminutive volume that provides a surprisinly complete and beautifully readable overview to this topic - all without resorting to specialist jargon.
*The Guardian*