At War Within
The Double-Edged Sword of Immunity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 7 August 1997
- ISBN 9780195115680
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 218x142x18 mm
- Weight 408 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures and tables 0
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Short description:
William Clark's At War Within takes us on a fascinating tour through the immune system, examining the history of its discovery, the ways in which it protects us, and how it may bring its full force to bear at the wrong time or in the wrong place.
Scientists have only gradually come to realize that this elegant defence system not only has the potential to help, as in the case of smallpox, but also the potential to do profound harm in health problems ranging from allergies to AIDS, and from organ transplants to cancer. Dr Clark discusses the myriad of medical problems involving the immune system, and systematically explains each one, making the complexities of this delicately balanced mechanism comprehensible to the lay reader.
Long description:
William Clark's At War Within takes us on a fascinating tour through the immune system, examining the history of its discovery, the ways in which it protects us, and how it may bring its full force to bear at the wrong time or in the wrong place.
Scientists have only gradually come to realize that this elegant defence system not only has the potential to help, as in the case of smallpox, but also the potential to do profound harm in health problems ranging from allergies to AIDS, and from organ transplants to cancer. Dr Clark discusses the myriad of medical problems involving the immune system, and systematically explains each one, making the complexities of this delicately balanced mechanism comprehensible to the lay reader.
Review from the cloth edition: The book could serve as good supplementary reading and should be in all libraries. Even professional immunologists will learn something.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Overture to a science unborn: Smallpox and the origins of immunology
Chapter 2: The anatomy of an immune response
Chapter 3: Living in the bubble: Primary immune deficiency diseases
Chapter 4: Hypersensitivity and allergy
Chapter 5: Horror autotoxicus: The immunology of self-destruction
Chapter 6: When the wall comes tumbling down ... AIDS
Chapter 7: Organ transplantation: Technology vs. ethics?
Chapter 8: Minding the immune system's business: The dialogue between the brain and the immune system
Appendix: Diversity, tolerance and memory: The intellectual history of immunology
