An Elegant Defense : The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System
A Tale in Four Lives
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Word Count
144,000 words, Guess
Page Count
576 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-100062699105
- ISBN-139780062699107
- Library of Congress Control Number2018038019
- OCLC Control Number1047637616
- Better World Books9780062699107
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27333099M
Classifications
- LCCQR181.7 .R53 2019
Description
"A groundbreaking narrative exploration of the human immune system--the key to human health and longevity--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and acclaimed author of A Deadly Wandering"-- The immune system is a guardian vigilantly fighting illness, healing wounds, maintaining order and balance, and keeping us alive. Richtel interweaves the stories of four people: a terminal cancer patient who rises from the grave; a medical marvel who defies HIV; two women with autoimmunity who discover their own bodies have turned against them. As he leads us from the Black Plague to twentieth-century breakthroughs in vaccination and antibiotics, to the cutting-edge laboratories that are revolutionizing immunology, his four patients each illuminates an essential facet of our "elegant defense." -- adapted from jacket
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- An Elegant Defense : The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
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