The plague makers : how we are creating catastrophic new epidemics-- and what we must do to avert them / Jeffrey A. Fisher.

New York : Simon & Schuster, [1994], ©1994.

256 pages ; 25 cm

Prelude to disaster -- Hospitals: the places you go to get sick -- Apocalypse soon? -- The possible link between antiobiotics and AIDS -- Completing the AIDS hypothesis -- Dangerous exports from the Third World -- Bigger animals, more resistance -- First cures, first problems -- More cures and the widening problem -- The miseducation of physicians -- Fifteen things you can do to avert catastrophe -- A glossary of the most commonly used antibiotics in human therapy -- A specific guide to proper antiobiotic use -- Names and addresses of organizations and individuals concerned with proper antiobiotic use.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-240) and index