At war within : the double-edged sword of immunity /

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In the seventeenth century, smallpox reigned as the world's worst killer. Luck, more than anything else, decided who would live and who would die. That is, until Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, an English aristocrat, moved to Constantinople and noticed the Turkish practice of "ingrafting"...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Clark, William R., 1938-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
Immune system > Popular works.
Immunologic diseases > Popular works.
Immune system.
Immunological deficiency syndromes.
Immune System
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Système immunitaire > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Maladies immunologiques > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Système immunitaire.
Syndromes de déficit immunitaire.
MEDICAL > Immunology.
Immunologic diseases.
Immuniteit.
Immunopathologie.
Immuunsysteem.
Humans > Immune system
Popular Work
Popular works.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Overture to a science unborn: smallpox and the origins of immunology
  • The anatomy of an immune response
  • Living in the bubble: primary immune deficiency diseases
  • hypersensitivity and allergy
  • Horror autotoxicus: the immunology of self-destruction
  • When the wall comes tumbling down: AIDS
  • Organ transplantation: exploring the boundary between technology and ethics
  • Minding the immune system's business: the dialogue between the brain and the immune system
  • Diversity, tolerance, and memory: the politically correct immune system.

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