As part of Year of the Lung, the American Thoracic Society is publishing a book on respiratory diseases and how they affect persons in the United States and their families.

The book also looks at advances made in preventing, diagnosing and treating respiratory diseases and the challenges ahead for curing or eliminating them.

This 25-chapter book is written by ATS members who are among foremost experts in their respective fields and edited by Dean Schraufnagel, M.D., who will serve as ATS president in 2010-2011.

Breathing in America will be available in print this summer, but you can view sample chapters now at www.thoracic.org.