Intolerant bodies: a short history of autoimmunity
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 experi…
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- Full title :Intolerant bodies : a short history of autoimmunity / Warwick Anderson and Ian R. Mackay.
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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- Publication Date:©2014
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Johns Hopkins University Press
- Place of Publication:Baltimore
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
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- Description:xii, 250 pages ; : 22 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781421415338, 142141533X
- oclc:ocn871189393
- LC Classification:RC600
- Dewey Decimal:616.97/8
Table of 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.
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