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Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity
Warwick Anderson
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Description for Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity
Paperback. Connecting laboratory research, clinical medicine, social theory, and lived experience, Intolerant Bodies reveals how doctors and patients have come to terms, often reluctantly, with this novel and puzzling mechanism of disease causation. Series: Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: MBX; MJCM; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 326.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421415338
SKU
V9781421415338
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About Warwick Anderson
Warwick Anderson is an Australian Research Council laureate fellow and a professor in the Department of History and the Center for Values, Ethics, and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen, also published by Johns Hopkins. Ian R. Mackay is a research ... Read more
Reviews for Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity
Anderson and Mackay's engaging survey is a studious examination of autoimmune diseases, and a humble admission that their cures remain stubbornly elusive. Publishers Weekly This is a fascinating read... A solid choice for academic science and health sciences collections. Library Journal ... This book packs in serious scholarship in both science and its history, adding hefty amounts of philosophy for ... Read more