The Paradox of the Immune System: Protection, Chronic Inflammation, Autoimmune Disease, Cancer, and Pandemics (Developments in Immunology)

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By Louis J. Catania The Paradox of the Immune System: Protection, Inflammation, Autoimmune Disease and Beyond provides a provocative approach to immunology as a "double-edged sword." While it is our greatest protector, it is also the cause of chronic inflammation that leads to autoimmune disease, cancer and infectious diseases like COVID-19. Sections cover the basic science of immunology and its intimate genetic associations, biomedical hypotheses asserting immunology as the basis of all human diseases, and elaborate on immunology as "the enemy within us." This engaging, original approach to a science so personal provides new and invaluable understanding on the bioscience that controls our lives. Product Details Publisher ‏ : ‎ Academic Press; 1st edition (August 17, 2022) Language ‏ : ‎ English Paperback ‏ : ‎ 284 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0323951872 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0323951876 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780323951876 eText ISBN: 9780323951883