An edition of A commotion in the blood (1997)

A commotion in the blood

life, death, and the immune system

1st Owl Books ed.
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A commotion in the blood
Stephen S. Hall
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An edition of A commotion in the blood (1997)

A commotion in the blood

life, death, and the immune system

1st Owl Books ed.
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Publish Date
Publisher
Henry Holt
Language
English
Pages
544

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Commotion In the Blood: Life, Death and The Immune System (Sloan Technology Series)
March 5, 1998, Little Brown Company
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Cover of: A commotion in the blood
A commotion in the blood: life, death, and the immune system
1998, Henry Holt
in English - 1st Owl Books ed.
Cover of: A commotion in the blood
A commotion in the blood: life, death, and the immune system
1997, Henry Holt
in English - 1st ed.

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Table of Contents

Prologue: "shooting rubber bands at the stars"
"Laudable pus"
"The man who does the most work does the best work"
Bleak house
The method of choice
The Coley phenomenon
In search of an interferon
Lymphodrek
"The cloning of interferon and other mistakes"
"One of my best known accidents"
The silk purse years
The rise of the T cell chauvinists
To be in motion
The end of the beginning?
"There's just so much you can learn from a mouse"
"One plus one equals ten"
"Beautiful living things"
"Dr. Levy's favorite guinea pig"
A piece of misleading news
The next great magic bullet
Epilogue: Metaphors, manic depression, and the "C" word.

Edition Notes

"An Owl book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-515) and index.

Published in
New York
Series
The Sloan technology series, The Sloan technology series, Sloan technology series
Genre
Popular Works.
Other Titles
Blood

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
616.07
Library of Congress
RM276 .H35 1998, RM276

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 544 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
544

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21894224M
ISBN 10
0805058419
OCLC/WorldCat
39558407
Library Thing
171457
Goodreads
1623096

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There survives from the beginning of this century an intriguing bit of paper ephemera, notable less for the celebrated names marked down upon it than for a medical future it unknowingly foretells.
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