Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

One          Medicine On the Brink

Two         Medicine through the Millennia

Three      From Primordial Soup to Personalized Medicine

Four        Camouflage Your Genes

Five         The End of Hereditary Rare Disease

Six           New Drugs for Bad Bugs

Seven      The Big Ones: Common, Chronic Diseases

Eight        Physicians Past, Present and Future

Nine         How Are New Drugs Regulated?

Ten          The Pharmacy of the Future

Eleven     To Infinity and Beyond

Appendices

Glossary of Terms

Bibliography, References and suggested reading

Index