This volume concerns diseases and medicine, today and in the near future: the embryo, ageing, germs, viruses, AIDS, cancer, obesity, substance abuse, mental illnesses and depression, allergies, neuro-degenerative diseases; immune defences and vaccines, transplants, pharmaceutical chemistry, nuclear medicine, healthcare and its future.

Contributors include René Frydman, Étienne-Émile Baulieu, Bernard Roques, Luc Montagnier, Philippe Kourilsky, Didier Sicard.