An epidemic of absence : a new way of understanding allergies and autoimmune diseases / Moises Velasquez-Manoff.
A controversial, revisionist approach to autoimmune and allergic disorders considers the perspective that the human immune system has been disabled by twentieth-century hygiene and medical practices, exploring promising experimentations through which beneficial parasites have been strategically reintroduced to autoimmune patients.
Record details
- ISBN: 1439199388
- ISBN: 9781439199381
- Physical Description: vii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover edition
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2012.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-356) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Chapter 1 Meet Your Parasites 1 -- Chapter 2 Homo Squalidus: The Filthy Ape 21 -- Chapter 3 Island of Autoimmunity 45 -- Chapter 4 Parasites to Heal the Gut 62 -- Chapter 5 What Is Asthma For? 80 -- Chapter 6 Missing "Old Friends" 99 -- Chapter 7 Mom Matters Most 129 -- Chapter 8 Disappearing Microbiota 144 -- Chapter 9 Community-Wide Derangement 164 -- Chapter 10 Multiple Sclerosis: Worms That Never Come, a Tardy Virus, and a Brain That Degenerates 193 -- Chapter 11 Modernity's Developmental Disorder: Autism and the Superorganism 214 -- Chapter 12 Beyond Allergy and Autoimmunity: Inflammation and the Diseases of Civilization 242 -- Chapter 13 Hookworm Underground: Crowdsourcing "The Cure" in an Age of Immune Dysfunction 263 -- Chapter 14 Life with the American Murderer, and the Body's Largest Organ 280 -- Chapter 15 Collapse of the Superorganism, and What to Do About It 292.
- Citation/References Note:
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | 616.97 VEL (Text) | 37810435039952 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
