@article{859606,
      recid = {859606},
      author = {Richtel, Matt,},
      title = {An elegant defense : the extraordinary new science of the  immune system : a tale in four lives /},
      pages = {xi, 425 pages :},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {The immune system is a guardian vigilantly fighting  illness, healing wounds, maintaining order and balance, and  keeping us alive. Richtel interweaves the stories of four  people: a terminal cancer patient who rises from the grave;  a medical marvel who defies HIV; two women with  autoimmunity who discover their own bodies have turned  against them. As he leads us from the Black Plague to  twentieth-century breakthroughs in vaccination and  antibiotics, to the cutting-edge laboratories that are  revolutionizing immunology, his four patients each  illuminates an essential facet of our "elegant defense." --  adapted from jacket},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/859606},
}