An elegant defense : the extraordinary new science of the immune system : a tale in four lives / Matt Richtel.
Richtel, Matt, author.
2019
QR181.7 .R53 2019 (Mapit)
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Title An elegant defense : the extraordinary new science of the immune system : a tale in four lives / Matt Richtel.
Author Richtel, Matt, author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780062698537 (hardcover)
0062698532 (hardcover)
9780062698490 (paperback)
0062698494 (paperback)
Published New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
Language English
Description xi, 425 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number QR181.7 .R53 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 616.07/9
Summary 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
"A groundbreaking narrative exploration of the human immune system--the key to human health and longevity--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and acclaimed author of A Deadly Wandering"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Includes index.
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