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پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
QR181.7 .C624 1995eb
QR181
.
7
.
C624
1995eb
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0198025300
(Number (ISBN
9780198025306
Erroneous ISBN
0195092864
Erroneous ISBN
9780195092868
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b706330
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
At war within :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
the double-edged sword of immunity /
First Statement of Responsibility
William R. Clark.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1995.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xi, 276 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-269) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Overture to a science unborn: smallpox and the origins of immunology -- The anatomy of an immune response -- Living in the bubble: primary immune deficiency diseases -- hypersensitivity and allergy -- Horror autotoxicus: the immunology of self-destruction -- When the wall comes tumbling down: AIDS -- Organ transplantation: exploring the boundary between technology and ethics -- Minding the immune system's business: the dialogue between the brain and the immune system -- Diversity, tolerance, and memory: the politically correct immune system.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
In the seventeenth century, smallpox reigned as the world's worst killer. Luck, more than anything else, decided who would live and who would die. That is, until Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, an English aristocrat, moved to Constantinople and noticed the Turkish practice of "ingrafting" or inoculation, which, she wrote, made "the small- pox ... entirely harmless." Convinced by what she witnessed, she allowed her six-year-old son to be ingrafted, and the treatment was a complete success--the young Montagu enjoyed lifelong immunity from smallpox. Lady Montagu's discovery would, ho.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
At war within.
International Standard Book Number
9780195092868
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Immune system, Popular works.
Immunologic diseases, Popular works.
Immune System, Popular Works.
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes, Popular Works.
Immune system.
Immuniteit.
Immunologic diseases.
Immunopathologie.
Immuunsysteem.
MEDICAL-- Immunology.
(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
MED-- 044000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
616
.
07/9
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QR181
.
7
Book number
.
C624
1995eb
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
44
.
78
Class number
1996
A-157
Class number
QW
504
Book Number
C596a
1995
System Code
bcl
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Clark, William R.,1938-
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20201207213516.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
pn
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
