Intolerant bodies: a short history of autoimmunity
Autoimmune diseases, which affect 5 to 10 percent of the population, 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…
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 diabete…
A collaboration between I. Mackay, one of the founders of clinical immunology, and W. Anderson, a historian of 20th-century biomedical science. They narrate the changing scientific understanding of the cause of autoimmunity and explore the significance of having a disease in whi…