PDF/ePub Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity Writen By Warwick Anderson
Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity
By : Warwick Anderson
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Book Synopsis :
Autoimmune diseases, which affect 5 to 10 percent of the population, are as unpredictable in their course as they are paradoxical in their cause. They produce persistent suffering as they follow a drawn-out, often lifelong, pattern of remission and recurrence. Multiple sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and type 1 diabetes--the diseases considered in this book--are but a handful of the conditions that can develop when the immune system goes awry.Intolerant Bodies is a unique collaboration between Ian Mackay, one of the prominent founders of clinical immunology, and Warwick Anderson, a leading historian of twentieth-century biomedical science. The authors narrate the changing scientific understanding of the cause of autoimmunity and explore the significance of having a disease in which one's body turns on itself. The book unfolds as a biography of a relatively new concept of pathogenesis, one that was accepted only in the 1950s.In their description of the onset, symptoms, and
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Author : Warwick Anderson
Pages : 264 pages
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
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ISBN-10 : 142141533X
ISBN-13 : 9781421415338
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