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)
Part II. Killer air. 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. Panting for air (asthma) ; 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) ; That sleep if death (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)
Part V. Breathing adapts. I wouldn't want that for myself (ethical dilemmas) ; A science of uncertainty (closing).