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Gasping for Air - How Breathing Is Killing Us and What We Can Do about It (Paperback)
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Gasping for Air - How Breathing Is Killing Us and What We Can Do about It (Paperback)
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Breathing is a continuous battle between our need for oxygen and
forces in nature that attack our lungs. Three hundred thousand
Americans will die of respiratory diseases this year. Gasping for
Air is the dramatic story of how infections, toxins, carcinogens,
and air pollution strike against one of our basic body functions.
The book also describes how we come into the struggle with diseases
like asthma, cystic fibrosis, and sleep apnea, which make us
vulnerable to assaults on breathing from without and within. We
have powerful weapons to defend breathing. Medical science, public
health, engineering, and business, all play important roles in the
effort to support breathing. Yet, Gasping for Air also reminds
readers how breathing support has been at the eye of the storm in
many ethical dilemmas of modern healthcare. Here, Kevin Glynn, an
experienced pulmonologist and lifelong asthma sufferer tells
stories about the third most common cause of premature deaths in
the developed world, describes lethal forces in Nature (infections,
genetic predispositions) and from human activities (dusty
occupations, tobacco smoking, chemical toxins, drug overdoses) that
threaten to suffocate us, and offers sage advice for how to prevent
and address those threats and the damage they cause.
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