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An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases

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A brilliant, groundbreaking report on the dramatic rise of allergic and autoimmune disease, and the controversial therapies scientists are developing to correct these disorders.

From asthma to Crohn’s disease, everyone knows someone who suffers from an allergic or autoimmune disorder. And if it appears that the prevalence of these maladies has increased recently, that’s because it has—to levels never before seen in human history. These days no fewer than one in five—and likely more—Americans suffers from one of these ailments. We seem newly, and bafflingly, vulnerable to immune system malfunction. Why? One possibility is that we have systematically cleaned ourselves to illness; this belief challenges deeply entrenched notions about the value of societal hygiene and the harmful nature of microbes. Yet scientists investigating the rampant immune dysfunction in the developed world have inevitably arrived at this conclusion. To address this global “epidemic of absence,” they must restore the human ecosystem.

This groundbreaking book explores the promising but controversial “worm therapy”—deliberate infection with parasitic worms—in development to treat autoimmune disease. It explains why farmers’ children so rarely get hay fever, why allergy is less prevalent in former Eastern Bloc countries, and how one cancer-causing bacterium may be good for us. It probes the link between autism and a dysfunctional immune system. It investigates the newly apparent fetal origins of allergic disease—that a mother’s inflammatory response imprints on her unborn child, tipping the scales toward allergy.

An Epidemic of Absence is a brilliant, cutting-edge exploration of the dramatic rise of allergic and autoimmune diseases and the controversial, potentially groundbreaking therapies that scientists are developing to correct these disorders.
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Author

Moises Velasquez-Manoff

Binding

Paperback

Brand

Velasquez-manoff, Moises

EAN

9781439199398

EANList

9781439199398

Edition

Reprint

ISBN

1439199396

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1

ItemDimensions

837, hundredths-inches, 550, hundredths-inches, 0, hundredths-pounds, 120, hundredths-inches

Label

Scribner

Languages

English, Published, English, Original Language, English, Unknown

Manufacturer

Scribner

NumberOfItems

1

NumberOfPages

416

PackageDimensions

110, hundredths-inches, 830, hundredths-inches, 70, hundredths-pounds, 540, hundredths-inches

PackageQuantity

1

ProductGroup

Book

ProductTypeName

ABIS_BOOK

PublicationDate

2013-09-17

Publisher

Scribner

ReleaseDate

2013-09-17

Studio

Scribner

TradeInValue

272, USD, $2.72