So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease by Thomas Levenson

So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease

Thomas Levenson

432 pages hardcover

2 editions

nonfiction health history science medium-paced
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The centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease reveals as much about human reasoning—and the pitfalls of ego—as it does about microbes.Scientists and enthusiastic amateurs first confirmed the existence of living things ...

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