An epidemic of absence : a new way of understanding allergies and autoimmune diseases /
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Author / Creator: | Velasquez-Manoff, Moises. |
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Edition: | 1st Scribner hardcover ed. |
Imprint: | New York, NY : Scribner, 2012. |
Description: | vii, 385 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8909293 |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Meet Your Parasites
- Chapter 2. Homo Squalidus: The Filthy Ape
- Chapter 3. Island of Autoimmunity
- Chapter 4. Parasites to Heal the Gut
- Chapter 5. What Is Asthma For?
- Chapter 6. Missing "Old Friends"
- Chapter 7. Mom Matters Most
- Chapter 8. The Disappearing Microbiota
- Chapter 9. Community-Wide Derangement
- Chapter 10. Multiple Sclerosis: Worms That Never Come, a Tardy Virus, and a Brain That Degenerates
- Chapter 11. Modernity's Developmental Disorder: Autism and the Superorganism
- Chapter 12. Beyond Allergy and Autoimmunity: Inflammation and the Diseases of Civilization
- Chapter 13. The Hookworm Underground: Crowdsourcing "The Cure" in an Age of Immune Dysfunction
- Chapter 14. Life with the American Murderer, and the Body's Largest Organ
- Chapter 15. The Collapse of the Superorganism, and What to Do About It
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Glossary