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A Commotion in the Blood (Sloan technology series) Book

"To anyone who writes about science or medicine ... the word breakthrough has a kind of transcendent power." It is to Stephen Hall's credit that he avoids the B-word in A Commotion in the Blood. Hall recounts the "manic-depressive history" of immune therapies for cancer without, said Roy Porter, "the futile pretense that the great cancer 'magic bullet' will be there as the new millennium dawns." Fred Rosen, in Nature magazine, calls A Commotion in the Blood "a wonderful book for lay readers who want to know more about current biomedical science ... replete with scientific details recounted in very comprehensible prose." Read More

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    The author of this volume contends we are in the middle of a quiet revolution in medicine - that of immunotherapy, a form of medicine which takes its lessons from the bodies it seeks to treat. Immunological methods are now employed to treat cancer, AIDS and chronic viral diseases. Beginning with the "occasional miracles" of a mysterious turn-of-the-century cancer vaccine called "Coley's toxins", Hall traces the story of how doctors have learned to use the immune system to develop a wide array of innovative therapies. Proceeding across continents and time, Hall discusses interferon, tumour necrosis factors and the most promising substances to trigger an immunological "commotion", such as interleukin-2.

  • 0316645206
  • 9780316645201
  • Stephen S. Hall
  • 5 March 1998
  • Little, Brown & Company
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 560
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