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Author:

Velasquez-Manoff, Moises.

Title:

An epidemic of absence : a new way of understanding allergies and autoimmune diseases / Moises Velasquez-Manoff.

Edition:

1st Scribner hardcover ed.

Publisher:

Scribner,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

vii, 385 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Immune system--Popular works.
Immunologic diseases--Popular works.
Allergy--Alternative treatment.
Autoimmunity--Research.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-356) and index.

Contents:

Meet your parasites -- Homo squalidus: the filthy ape -- Island of autoimmunity -- Parasites to heal the gut -- What is asthma for? -- Missing "old friends" -- Mom matters most -- The disappearing microbiota -- Community-wide derangement -- Multiple sclerosis: worms that never come, a tardy virus, and a brain that degenerates -- Modernity's developmental disorder: autism and the superorganism -- Beyond allergy and autoimmunity: inflammation and the diseases of civilization -- The hookworm underground: crowdsourcing "the cure" in an age of immune dysfunction -- Life with the American murderer, and the body's largest organ -- The collapse of the superorganism, and what to do about it.

Summary:

Whether it is asthma, food or pollen allergies, type-1 diabetes, lupus, multiple sclerosis, or 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. In the past 150 years, improved sanitation, water treatment, and the advent of vaccines and antibiotics have saved countless lives, nearly eradicating diseases that had plagued humanity for millennia. But now, a growing body of evidence suggests that the very steps we took to combat infections also eliminated organisms that kept our bodies in balance. The idea that we have systematically cleaned ourselves to illness challenges deeply entrenched notions about the value of societal hygiene and the harmful nature of microbes. Scientists investigating the rampant immune dysfunction in the developed world have inevitably arrived at this conclusion.

ISBN:

1439199388 (hc)
9781439199381 (hc)

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