Intolerant bodies : a short history of autoimmunity / Warwick Anderson and Ian R. Mackay.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Johns Hopkins biographies of diseasePublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014Copyright date: Description: xii, 250 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781421415338
  • 142141533X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 616.97/8 23
LOC classification:
  • RC600 .A53 2014
NLM classification:
  • 2015 A-803
  • WD 305
Contents:
Introduction: Thinking autoimmunity -- Physiology with obstacles -- Immunological thought styles -- A sense of unlimited possibilities -- The science of self -- Doing biographical work -- Reframing self -- Afterword: Becoming autoimmune, or being not.
Summary: Autoimmune diseases 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 I diabetes -- the diseases considered in this book -- are but four examples of the many conditions that can develop when the body turns on itself. Connecting laboratory research, clinical medicine, social theory, and lived experience, the authors reveal how doctors and patients have come to terms with this new concept of pathogenesis, one that was accepted only in the 1950s.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-241) and index.

Introduction: Thinking autoimmunity -- Physiology with obstacles -- Immunological thought styles -- A sense of unlimited possibilities -- The science of self -- Doing biographical work -- Reframing self -- Afterword: Becoming autoimmune, or being not.

Autoimmune diseases 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 I diabetes -- the diseases considered in this book -- are but four examples of the many conditions that can develop when the body turns on itself. Connecting laboratory research, clinical medicine, social theory, and lived experience, the authors reveal how doctors and patients have come to terms with this new concept of pathogenesis, one that was accepted only in the 1950s.

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