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CONTENTS

Prologue: Lungs = Life

PART I

THE PAST: THE LUNGS SHAPED OUR BEGINNINGS, PHYSICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY

Chapter 1: Oxygen, Then Existence

Chapter 2: We Must Inhale and Exhale. But Why?

Chapter 3: An Infant’s Drive to Breathe

Chapter 4: The Extraordinary Healing Power of the Breath

PART II

THE PRESENT: OUR LUNGS—AND US—AGAINST THE WORLD

Chapter 5: A Window onto the Immune System

Chapter 6: The Lungs and the Common Good

Chapter 7: Nicotine Seduction and Stem Cells

Chapter 8: Health Is Not the Absence of Disease: Climate Change

Chapter 9: Exposures Unnecessary: Time Does Not Heal All Wounds

PART III

THE FUTURE: THE LUNGS PROVIDE A VISION OF WHAT’S TO COME

Chapter 10: Curing the Incurable

Chapter 11: Getting Personal with the Lungs

Chapter 12: The Breath and the Voice

Chapter 13: The Miracle of Lung Transplant

PART IV

LIFE, LOVE, AND THE LUNGS

Chapter 14: The Greatest Medical Story Never Told

Chapter 15: Cystic Fibrosis, the Most Heartbreaking Lung Disease

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Image Credits

Index