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OverviewEvery human body carries a secret cargo: a huge population of micro-organisms that lives in your mouth and nose, on your skin, in your guts. This is the human microbiome, and it has in the last few years become biologists most thrilling research interest. Vastly outnumbering human cells, our invisible passengers are vital to life. They help us digest food, make essential nutrients, and combat disease. They help regulate allergies and inflammation via the immune system. They influence bowel disease, heart disease and cancer. They may even have a role in developing behaviour. We are not just isolated humans, but superorganisms. And that calls into question our obsession with disinfection and sterilisation, and our antibiotic addiction, which is like managing a complex ecosystem with napalm. Acclaimed science communicator and editor Jon Turney presents the first book-length account of a new realm of human biology that will make you think again about this machine we call ourselves. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jon TurneyPublisher: Icon Books Imprint: Icon Books Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.258kg ISBN: 9781785780240ISBN 10: 1785780247 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 24 December 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews'I, Superorganism will surprise you and then surprise you again. It seems our body could not be more different than we could imagine.' - Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Biology Book Award 'I, Superorganism will surprise you and then surprise you again. It seems our body could not be more different than we could imagine.' - Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Biology Book Award 'Written in an engaging and exciting style that encourages readers to view their bodies, their superorganisms, in a new light'. Chemistry World Author InformationJon Turney is a science writer and former features editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement. He has taught at Imperial College and was head of the Department of Science and Technology Studies at UCL. He was popular science editor at Penguin Press and is the author, among much else, of The Rough Guide to the Future (Rough Guides, 2010) and Lovelock and Gaia (Icon, 2003), and editor of A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems about Science (Faber, 2000). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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