From the Book - First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Part I : The past : the lungs shaped our beginnings, physically and spiritually. Oxygen, then existence
We must inhale and exhale. but why?
An infant's drive to breathe
The extraordinary healing power of the breath
Part II : The present : our lungs
against the world. A window onto the immune system
The lungs and the common good
Nicotine seduction and stem cells
Health is not the absence of disease : climate change
Exposures unnecessary : time does not heal all wounds
Part III : The future : the lungs provide a vision of what's to come. Curing the incurable
Getting personal with the lungs
The miracle of lung transplant
Part IV : Life, love, and the lungs. The greatest medical story never told
Cystic fibrosis, the most heartbreaking lung desease.