In Defense of Self: How the Immune System Really Works
Publisher: Oxford University Press | Language: English | ISBN: 0195335554 | 288 pages | Data: 2008 | PDF | 1.3 Mb
Description: We live in a sea of seething microbial predators,an infinity of invisible and invasive microorganisms capable of settingset up shop inside us and sending us to an early grave. The only thingkeeping them out? The immune system. William Clark's In Defense of Selfoffers a refreshingly accessible tour of the immune system, putting inlayman's terms essential information that has been for too long theexclusive province of trained specialists. Clark explains how theimmune system works by using powerful genetic, chemical, and cellularweapons to protect us from the vast majority of disease-causingmicrobes-bacteria, viruses, molds, and parasites. Only those microbesour bodies need to help us digest food and process vitamins areadmitted. But this same system can endanger us by rejecting potentiallylife-saving organ transplants, or by overreacting and turning too muchforce against foreign invaders, causing serious--occasionallylethal--collateral damage to our tissues and resulting in autoimmunedisease. In Defense of Self covers everything from how antibodies workand the strategies the body uses to distinguish self from not self tothe nature of immunological memory, the latest approaches tovaccination, and how the immune system will react should we ever besubjected to a bioterrorist attack. Clark also offers importantinsights on the vital role that the immune system plays in cancer,AIDS, autoimmunity, rheumatoid arthritis, allergies and asthma, andother diseases. Of special interest to all those suffering fromdiseases related to the immune system, as well as their families, InDefense of Self lucidly explains a system none of us could live without.
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