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Immune: How Your Body Defends and Protects You

Autor Catherine Carver
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 sep 2017
A thrilling, fact-packed journey of discovery through the body's immune systemThe human body is like an exceedingly well-fortified castle, defended by billions of soldiers - some live for less than a day, others remember battles for decades, but all are essential in protecting us from disease. This hidden army is our immune system, and without it we could not survive the eternal war between our microscopic enemies and ourselves.Immune explores the incredible arsenal that lives within us - how it knows what to attack and what to defend, and how it kills everything from the common cold virus to plague bacteria. We see what happens when the immune system turns on us, and how life is impossible without its protection. We learn how diseases try to evade the immune system and exploit its vulnerabilities, and we discover how scientists are designing new drugs to harness the power of the system to fight disease. Do transplants ever reject their new bodies? What is pus? How can your body make more antibodies than there are stars in our galaxy? Why is cancer so hard for our immune system to fight? Why do flu outbreaks cause a spike in sleep disorders? Can we smell someone else's immune system, and does that help us subconsciously decide who we fall in love with? In this book, Catherine Carver answers all of these compelling questions, and many more besides.Drawing on everything from ancient Egyptian medical texts to cutting-edge medical science, Immune will take you on an adventure packed with weird and wonderful revelations about your own internal defensive system.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472915122
ISBN-10: 1472915127
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:Export/Airside
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Sigma
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Interweaves quirky facts with historical tales and cutting-edge science to explain eactly how our body defends and protects itself

Notă biografică

Catherine Carver completed her first degree in Natural Sciences before going on to study Medicine at the University of Aberdeen, which included time spent in Tanzania working with TB/HIV sufferers. She's worked at the Wellcome Trust and as a Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and studied Public Health at Harvard, where she was a Frank Knox Fellow.Now living in Scotland, Catherine is a seasoned science communicator, and she has written blogs for The Lancet, Scientific American, Meducation, Mosaic and The Wellcome Trust.

Cuprins

Preface: Our hidden army1. Full frontal immunity: The first line of defence2. A cast of cut-throats: The killer cells that keep us safe3. Chit-chatting chemicals: How your immune system yells4. Transplants: Designer vaginas to pig heart perfection5. Outnumbered: How the immune system manages the body's resident bacteria6. Immunological tango: Sex and love7. What a cute parasite: Pregnancy and the immune system8. A palace for parasites: Worms and fleas and ticks! Oh my!9. The adaptive assassins: Killing everything from pink-eye to plague10. Vaccines: A triumph of man's manipulation of the immune system11. Allergies: Everything you're itching to know12. Auto-immunity: The science of friendly fire13. Defenceless: The boy who lived in a bubble14. Cancer: A deadly spot the difference15. Killer bugs: Be afraid, be very afraid16. Clever drugs: Immunological alchemy

Recenzii

A spectacular contribution to popular science writing.
With exuberance and clarity, Catherine Carver makes the complex science easy to understand in this refreshing read.
Immune is a fascinating journey through the body's defences. Carver's writing fizzes with descriptions, metaphors and stories, taking us right into the inner workings of the immune system with flair and enthusiasm.