LEADER 03096nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910454110303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-96563-0 010 $a9786610965632 010 $a0-19-802530-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000578654 035 $a(EBL)430737 035 $a(OCoLC)435824030 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001142506 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12445229 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001142506 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11098557 035 $a(PQKB)10769173 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000107089 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11108926 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107089 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10006053 035 $a(PQKB)11781100 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC430737 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL430737 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10358282 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL96563 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000578654 100 $a19941117d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAt war within$b[electronic resource] $ethe double-edged sword of immunity /$fWilliam R. Clark 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1995 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-511568-6 311 $a0-19-509286-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 267-269) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aIndex 330 $aIn 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 606 $aImmunologic diseases$vPopular works 606 $aMedicine 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aImmunologic diseases 615 0$aMedicine. 676 $a616.079 700 $aClark$b William R.$f1938-$0262163 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454110303321 996 $aAt war within$92295735 997 $aUNINA