THE LIVING MEDICINE: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost--and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail

The remarkable history of phages--viruses that devour bacteria--whose medical value was nearly lost to history after Stalin's brutal purges and the rise of antibiotics. Reveals the astonishing success of early phage experiments, phage therapy's decline, and why its resurgence might one day save the human race.