03096nam 2200661Ia 450 991045411030332120200520144314.01-280-96563-097866109656320-19-802530-0(CKB)1000000000578654(EBL)430737(OCoLC)435824030(SSID)ssj0001142506(PQKBManifestationID)12445229(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001142506(PQKBWorkID)11098557(PQKB)10769173(SSID)ssj0000107089(PQKBManifestationID)11108926(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107089(PQKBWorkID)10006053(PQKB)11781100(MiAaPQ)EBC430737(Au-PeEL)EBL430737(CaPaEBR)ebr10358282(CaONFJC)MIL96563(EXLCZ)99100000000057865419941117d1995 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAt war within[electronic resource] the double-edged sword of immunity /William R. ClarkNew York Oxford University Press19951 online resource (289 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-511568-6 0-19-509286-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-269) and index.Contents; Introduction; 1 Overture to a Science Unborn: Smallpox and the Origins of Immunology; 2 The Anatomy of an Immune Response; 3 Living in the Bubble: Primary Immune Deficiency Diseases; 4 Hypersensitivity and Allergy; 5 Horror Autotoxicus: The Immunology of Self-Destruction; 6 When the Wall Comes Tumbling Down: AIDS; 7 Organ Transplantation: Exploring the Boundary Between Technology and Ethics; 8 Minding the Immune System's Business: The Dialogue Between the Brain and the Immune System; Appendix: Diversity, Tolerance, and Memory: The Politically Correct Immune System; BibliographyIndexIn 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"" or inoculation, which, she wrote, made ""the small- pox...entirely harmless."" Convinced by what she witnessed, she allowed her six-year-old son to be ingrafted, and the treatment was a complete success--the young Montagu enjoyed lifelong immunity from smallpox. Lady Montagu's discovery would, however, remain a Immunologic diseasesPopular worksMedicineElectronic books.Immunologic diseasesMedicine.616.079Clark William R.1938-262163MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454110303321At war within2295735UNINA