Breath taking: the power, fragility, and future of our extraordinary lungs

Prologue : Lungs = life

Part I : The past : the lungs shaped our beginnings, physically and spiritually. Oxygen, then existence

We must inhale and exhale. but why?

An infant's drive to breathe

The extraordinary healing power of the breath

Part II : The present : our lungs

and us

against the world. A window onto the immune system

The lungs and the common good

Nicotine seduction and stem cells

Health is not the absence of disease : climate change

Exposures unnecessary : time does not heal all wounds

Part III : The future : the lungs provide a vision of what's to come. Curing the incurable

Getting personal with the lungs

The breath and the voice

The miracle of lung transplant

Part IV : Life, love, and the lungs. The greatest medical story never told

Cystic fibrosis, the most heartbreaking lung desease.