03057nam 2200649Ia 450 991082852420332120230313205344.00-19-770025-X1-280-96563-097866109656320-19-802530-0(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(Au-PeEL)EBL430737(CaPaEBR)ebr10358282(CaONFJC)MIL96563(MiAaPQ)EBC430737(EXLCZ)99100000000057865419941117d1995 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAt war within the double-edged sword of immunity /William R. ClarkNew York :Oxford University Press,1995.1 online resource (289 pages)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; Bibliography; IndexIn 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.Immunologic diseasesPopular worksMedicinePopular worksImmunologic diseasesMedicine616.079Clark William R.1938-262163MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828524203321At war within3995322UNINA