The Drugs Don't Work

A Global Threat

Professor Dame Sally Davies, Dr Jonathan Grant, Mike Catchpole

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English

Penguin
29 July 2015

Medicine; Public health & preventive medicine

Series: Penguin Specials

An Inconvenient Truth for health - the shocking crisis in antibiotics

This is a story that affects us all- our friends, our family and our children. Antibiotics add, on average, 20 years to everyone's lives. Since the manufacture of penicillin in 1943, for over 70 years we have survived extraordinary operations and life-threatening infections.

We are so familiar with these wonder drugs that we take them for granted.

The truth is that we have been abusing them- as patients; as doctors; as travellers; in our food.

No new class of antibiotic has been discovered for 26 years and the bugs are fighting back. If we do not take action now, in a few decades we may start dying from the most commonplace of ailments that can today be treated easily. This book is vital in raising awareness for the future health of our children and our grandchildren.

By: Professor Dame Sally Davies, Dr Jonathan Grant, Mike Catchpole
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 181mm, Width: 111mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 67g
ISBN: 9780241969199
ISBN 10: 0241969190
Series: Penguin Specials
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 29 July 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Professor Dame Sally Davies is the Chief Medical Officer for England. She is a haematologist with specialist research interest in sickle cell disease. But in her advisory post she guides government decisions on diverse subjects such as superbugs, drug trials and obesity. She developed the National Institute for Health Research in 2006 with a budget of GBP1 billion. She is an Emeritus Professor at Imperial College.

Reviews for The Drugs Don't Work: A Global Threat

A horror story . . . A startling and disturbing read * Scotsman * Gets across a single point with devastating effect . . . A highly important message that, for a start, every MP and GP should be reading -- Popularscience.co.uk If we fail to act, we are looking at an almost unthinkable scenario where antibiotics no longer work and we are cast back into the dark ages of medicine where treatable infections and injuries will kill once again * David Cameron, Prime Minister *