The Paradox of the Immune System
Protection, Chronic Inflammation, Autoimmune Disease, Cancer, and Pandemics

Covers the strengths and weaknesses (i.e., the risks) associated with the human immune system

Louis J. Catania (Author)

9780323951876, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 3 August 2022

284 pages
23.4 x 19 x 1.9 cm, 0.45 kg

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.

Section 1: Our friendly immune system1. The innate (aka "natural") immune system and immunity2. The adaptive (aka "acquired") immune response3. Genetics and GenomicsSection 2: The enemy within us Introduction4. Chronic inflammation: Enemy #15. Autoimmune diseases: When "self" becomes Enemy #26. Cancer: Immunology’s cruelest enemy and greatest challenge7. Immunology: The science of Pandemics, infectious disease, COVID-19 and Beyond

Subject Areas: Immunology [MJCM]