Allergic How Our Immune System Reacts to a Changing World
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TextPublisher: United Kingdom : Allen Lane, 2023Description: 368 pages: 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780241638163Subject(s): Allergy - Popular worksSummary: An eye-opening investigation-combining reporting, history and cutting-edge science-into allergies and their stunning rise in recent decades Hay fever. Peanut allergies. Eczema. Billions of people worldwide have some form of allergy; millions have one severe enough to seriously endanger their health. And over the past decade, the number of people diagnosed with allergy has been steadily increasing, an ever-growing medical burden on individuals, families, and our health care system. Medical anthropologist Theresa MacPhail, herself an allergy sufferer whose father died of a bee sting, set out to understand why. The result is a holistic and deeply researched examination of allergies, from their first medical description in 1819 to the mind-bending new treatments that are giving patients hope.
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An eye-opening investigation-combining reporting, history and cutting-edge science-into allergies and their stunning rise in recent decades Hay fever. Peanut allergies. Eczema. Billions of people worldwide have some form of allergy; millions have one severe enough to seriously endanger their health. And over the past decade, the number of people diagnosed with allergy has been steadily increasing, an ever-growing medical burden on individuals, families, and our health care system. Medical anthropologist Theresa MacPhail, herself an allergy sufferer whose father died of a bee sting, set out to understand why. The result is a holistic and deeply researched examination of allergies, from their first medical description in 1819 to the mind-bending new treatments that are giving patients hope.
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