Part I. Worldwide plagues
The disease medicine never cured (tuberculosis)
Captains of the men of death (bacterial pneumonia)
They stacked caskets in the halls (influenza)
The man in the iron lung (polio)
Products of parasitic beings (fungal infections)
Some like it hot (legionnaires' disease)
The virus with no name (SARS, MERS)
Suffocating work (occupational diseases)
Code red (fires and disasters)
Cleopatra reincarnate (overdoses and toxins)
Smoking beagles (tobacco smoking)
Dad, and the werewolf (lung cancer)
The lethal brown cloud (atmospheric pollution)
Part III. Vulnerable breathing
Lungs that do not collapse (COPD)
The great masquerader (pulmonary blood clots)
Cells like elongated crescents (genetic breathing disorders)
The pump and the bellows (the heart and the lungs)
To die to sleep (sleep disordered breathing)
The first breaths (newborn respiratory distress)
Part IV. Breathing defends
Around the world on oxygen (respiratory care)
Thank you for my life (ventilators)
I wouldn't want that for myself (ethical dilemmas)
A science of uncertainty (closing).
