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Immune: How Your Body Defends and Protects You
Catherine A. Carver
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Description for Immune: How Your Body Defends and Protects You
Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: MJCM; PDZ; VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
The human body is like an exceedingly well-fortified castle, defended by billions of soldiers - some live for less than a day, others remember battles for decades, but all are essential in protecting us from disease. This hidden army is our immune system, and without it we could not survive the eternal war between our microscopic enemies and ourselves. Immune explores the incredible arsenal that lives within us - how it knows what to attack and what to defend, and how it kills everything from the common cold virus to plague bacteria. We see what happens when ... Read more
The human body is like an exceedingly well-fortified castle, defended by billions of soldiers - some live for less than a day, others remember battles for decades, but all are essential in protecting us from disease. This hidden army is our immune system, and without it we could not survive the eternal war between our microscopic enemies and ourselves. Immune explores the incredible arsenal that lives within us - how it knows what to attack and what to defend, and how it kills everything from the common cold virus to plague bacteria. We see what happens when ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472915115
SKU
V9781472915115
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About Catherine A. Carver
Catherine Carver completed her first degree in Natural Sciences before going on to study Medicine at the University of Aberdeen, which included time spent in Tanzania working with TB/HIV sufferers. She's worked at the Wellcome Trust and as a Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and studied Public Health at Harvard, where she was a ... Read more
Reviews for Immune: How Your Body Defends and Protects You
A spectacular contribution to popular science writing.
Christopher van Tulleken, doctor and TV presenter With exuberance and clarity, Catherine Carver makes the complex science easy to understand in this refreshing read.
Danny Altmann, Professor of Immunology, Imperial College London Immune is a fascinating journey through the body's defences. Carver's writing fizzes with descriptions, metaphors and stories, taking us ... Read more
Christopher van Tulleken, doctor and TV presenter With exuberance and clarity, Catherine Carver makes the complex science easy to understand in this refreshing read.
Danny Altmann, Professor of Immunology, Imperial College London Immune is a fascinating journey through the body's defences. Carver's writing fizzes with descriptions, metaphors and stories, taking us ... Read more