4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 142 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm) digital video videodisc NTSC video file DVD polychrome
Target Audience Note:
CHVR: NR
Notes:
24 lectures on 4 discs (30 minutes per lecture) DVD, NTSC Course no. 1551 Features more than 1,000 engaging visual elements, including eye-catching microscopic photographs, dynamic animations and images, and detailed charts and graphs Accompanying guidebook contains glossary, biographical notes, and bibliographical references Bruce E. Fleury, lecturer
Contents:
Disc 1: The invisible realm Stone knives to iron plows The angel of death Germ theory The evolutionary arms race Microbial strategies Disc 2: Virulence Death by chocolate Bambi's revenge The germ of laziness The 1918 flu: a conspiracy of silence The 1918 flu: the Philadelphia story Disc 3: The 1918 flu: the search for the virus Immunity: self versus nonself Adaptive immunity to the rescue AIDS: the quiet killer The deadly strategy of AIDS Autoimmunity: self versus self Disc 4: Allergies and asthma Microbes as weapons Pandora's box Old world to new Close encounters of the microbial kind Microbes as friends
