Velasquez-Manoff, Moises,
An epidemic of absence : a new way of understanding allergies and autoimmune diseases / Moises Velasquez-Manoff. - vii, 385 p : ill ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-356) and index.
Meet your parasites -- Homo squalidus : the filthy ape -- Island of autoimmunity -- Parasites to heal the gut -- What is asthma for? -- Missing "old friends" -- Mom matters most -- The disappearing microbiota -- Community-wide derangement -- Multiple sclerosis : worms that never come, a tardy virus, and a brain that degenerates -- Modernity's developmental disorder : autism and the superorganism -- Beyond allergy and autoimmunity : inflammation and the diseases of civilization -- The hookworm underground : crowdsourcing "the cure" in an age of immune dysfunction -- Life with the American murderer, and the body's largest organ -- The collapse of the superorganism, and what to do about it.
9781439199381 (hc) 9781439199404
Immune system -- Popular works.
Immunologic diseases -- Popular works.
Allergy -- Alternative treatment.
Autoimmunity -- Research.
Immune System.
Hypersensitivity.
Autoimmune Diseases.
QR181.7 / .V45 2012
An epidemic of absence : a new way of understanding allergies and autoimmune diseases / Moises Velasquez-Manoff. - vii, 385 p : ill ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-356) and index.
Meet your parasites -- Homo squalidus : the filthy ape -- Island of autoimmunity -- Parasites to heal the gut -- What is asthma for? -- Missing "old friends" -- Mom matters most -- The disappearing microbiota -- Community-wide derangement -- Multiple sclerosis : worms that never come, a tardy virus, and a brain that degenerates -- Modernity's developmental disorder : autism and the superorganism -- Beyond allergy and autoimmunity : inflammation and the diseases of civilization -- The hookworm underground : crowdsourcing "the cure" in an age of immune dysfunction -- Life with the American murderer, and the body's largest organ -- The collapse of the superorganism, and what to do about it.
9781439199381 (hc) 9781439199404
Immune system -- Popular works.
Immunologic diseases -- Popular works.
Allergy -- Alternative treatment.
Autoimmunity -- Research.
Immune System.
Hypersensitivity.
Autoimmune Diseases.
QR181.7 / .V45 2012