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Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Offers insight into healthcare practices, identifying the cellular sources of aging and illness and revealing that aggressive treatments provide an illusion of control and survivability at the cost of life quality.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Around Christmas of 1882, while peering through a microscope at starfish larvae in which he had inserted tiny thorns, Russian zoologist Elie Metchnikoff had a brilliant insight: what if the mobile cells he saw gathering around the thorns were the same as white blood cells that traveled to the site of an injury or infection in a human or other animal? Was this some form of cellular defense? Metchnikoff's theory of immunity, that phagocytes-white blood...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Physical Desc
xviii, 341 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Although everyone who has ever had a cold is familiar with the human immune system and its importance, few understand just how complex and intricate the immune system is. In Immune, Internet creator and storyteller Philipp Dettmer takes readers on a journey through the fortress of the human body and its defenses. There is a constant battle raging just under our skin, full of stories of invasion, strategy, defeat, and noble self-sacrifice. In fact,...
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