Dying to Live
How our Bodies Fight Disease
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 28 August 1998
- ISBN 9780521584791
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages210 pages
- Size 237x160x20 mm
- Weight 470 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
Popular science account of how millions of cells in our immune system die in fighting off infectious invaders.
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How do our bodies fight disease? Written in clear accessible style this book gives an account of the inner workings of our immune systems. Aimed at the general reader it looks at fascinating areas of science including fever, AIDS and cancer. Central to the book, from which the title derives, is the idea that in the war against disease our bodies sacrifice millions of cells - antibodies and other specialized elements of the immune system. Only by pitting all manner of complex immune cells against such infectious agents can we continue to survive in the world. Of interest to anyone who has wondered what is really happening when we get ill and recover.
'Dying to Live is a testimony to Kendall's clarity and pragmatism.' The Lancet
Table of Contents:
Introduction; Acknowledgements; Part I. Recognition: 1. Molecules of distinction; 2. Distinctive families; 3. Patterns of life; Part II. Reaction: 4. Repelling invaders; 5. The fight begins; 6. The main campaigns; Part III. Recovery: 7. Life after death; 8. Survival of the fittest; 9. Struggle for survival; 10. The new millennium; Glossary; Index.
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