The Resistance
Bacteria, Antibiotics, and the Coming ReckoningBy K. Balachander
Length8h 13m
About this audiobook
The drugs that built modern medicine are failing — and the clock on what replaces them is already running out.
Eighty years ago, a moldy petri dish changed the terms of human survival. A scraped knee, a cesarean section, a round of chemotherapy — all became routine, survivable events instead of mortal gambles. That scaffolding is corroding, and almost no one has noticed.
The bacteria we built our medicine cabinet to kill are winning. In hospital wards, on feedlots, in the watersheds that connect them, infections that were trivially curable a generation ago are killing people again — and the drugs meant to replace the failing ones aren’t coming.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature
Length8 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 28, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Acknowledgments
3Chapter 1: Ten Million
4Chapter 2: The Mould and the Warning
5Chapter 3: Soil’s Gift
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6Chapter 4: The Antibiotic Paradox
7Chapter 5: ESKAPE
8Chapter 6: New Delhi
9Chapter 7: The Last Line
10Chapter 8: The Farm
11Chapter 9: Big Chicken
12Chapter 10: The Danish Experiment
13Chapter 11: The Resistome
14Chapter 12: Bad Bugs, No Drugs
15Chapter 13: The Broken Market
16Chapter 14: Push and Pull
17Chapter 15: iChip
18Chapter 16: The Machine’s Eye
19Chapter 17: Abaucin
20Chapter 18: De-extinction
21Chapter 19: The Chemist’s Bench
22Chapter 20: The Perfect Predator
23Chapter 21: A Phage for Isabelle
24Chapter 22: The Other Half of the World
25Chapter 23: The Stewards
26Chapter 24: The Reckoning
27Character Guide
28References & Bibliography
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