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An epidemic of absence : a new way of understanding allergies and autoimmune diseases / Moises Velasquez-Manoff.

Summary:

A brilliant, cutting-edge report on the rise of allergic and autoimmune disease--and the controversial new "worm therapy" that scientists are considering to treat it.

Record details

ISBN: 9781439199381
Physical Description: vii, 385 pages ; 24 cm.
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Scribner, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Whether it is asthma, food of pollen allergies, type-1 diabetes, lupus, multiple sclerosis, or Crohn's disease, everyone knows someone who suffers from an allergic or autoimmune disorder. And if it appears that the prevalence of these maladies has increased recently, that's because it has--to levels never before seen in human history. These days no fewer than one in five, and likely more, Americans suffer from one of these ailments. We seem newly, and bafflingly, vulnerable to immune system malfunction. Why? Here, the author explains the latest thinking about this problem and explores the remarkable new treatments in the works.