Anderson, Warwick,  1958- <br/><br/>
Intolerant bodies :  a short history of autoimmunity / 
Warwick Anderson and Ian R. Mackay. 
 - xii, 250 pages ;  22 cm. 
 - Johns Hopkins biographies of disease .
 - Johns Hopkins biographies of disease. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-241) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781421415338 142141533X 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014006735 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB4C3256  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Autoimmune diseases--History.<br/>Autoimmune Diseases--history.<br/>MEDICAL--Immunology.<br/>Autoimmune diseases.<br/>Autoaggressionskrankheit<br/>Multiple Sklerose<br/>Diabetes
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC600  / .A53 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>616.97/8 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>2015 A-803 WD 305