Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease - Softcover

"Could change medicine as profoundly during the 21st century as germ theory did in the 20th."-Newsweek

"Could revolutionize the treatment of serious chronic disease."-Richard Rhodes

"Has gems of insight and imagery which mark out its author as a master explainer."-Richard Dawkins

"Paul Ewald's important, compelling book could revolutionize the treatment of serious chronic disease. I couldn't put it down." --Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb and Deadly Feasts

"Provocative. . . . If correct, this theory will change the course of medicine." --Scientific American

"Paul Ewald is one of the liveliest and most original thinkers about disease. . . . Plague Time contains a new feast of his astonishing insights." --Mark Ridley, author of The Cooperative Gene

"This book has gems of insight which mark out its author as a master explainer." --Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene

The noted biologist and Amherst College professor defends his controversial thesis that most of our worst killers--including heart disease, cancer, and diabetes--are in fact caused by infectious diseases. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.