Dangerous Miracle

''Brilliant'' TIM SPECTOR
''Excellent'' HENRY MARSH
''Thrilling'' VENKI RAMAKRISHNAN

Antibiotics: one of humanity’s greatest achievements – but invented by microbes.

An epic narrative of discovery and innovation – but also of extraction and exploitation.

This is the spellbinding story of how we have burned through the fossil fuels of medicine.

Since their advent, antibiotics have saved millions of live...