Despommier, D: People, Parasites, and Plowshares Learning from Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders
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Sprache:Englisch
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
16.07.2013
Abbildungen
43 b&w illustrations
Verlag
Columbia Univers. PressSeitenzahl
240
Maße (L/B/H)
23.6/15.9/2.2 cm
Gewicht
473 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-231-16194-7
Dickson D. Despommier's vivid, visceral account of the biology, behavior, and history of parasites follows the interplay between these fascinating life forms and human society over thousands of years. He focuses on long-term host-parasite associations, which have evolved to avoid or even subvert the human immune system. Some do great damage to their hosts, while others have signed a kind of "peace treaty" in exchange for their long lives within them. They also, Despommier shows as he discusses these organisms with the reader, practice clever survival strategies that doctors hope to mimic as they undertake treatments for Crohns disease, food allergies, type 1 diabetes, organ transplantation, and other as yet unsolved medical challenges.
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