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The sixth edition of this best-selling textbook presents a systematic account of the effects, both good and bad, of the immune system.

 

Special emphasis is placed on what the immune system actually does in causing and preventing disease. Divided into two parts, the sixth edition discusses inflammation, the fundamentals of the immune system and how it is activated, the seven immune effector mechanisms, and how these effector mechanisms act not only to protect against infection and cancer but also to cause diseases.

 

Valuable reading for physicians, medical students, graduate students, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, teachers of immunology, and advanced courses in immunology.

 

Key Features

 

* Presents what the immune system actually does and how it does it

* Succinct presentation of the anatomy of the immune system and cellular interactions of the immune response

* Emphasis on immune reactions as variations on a theme of inflammation

* Role of immune mechanisms in causing disease (immunopathology) compared to role of immune mechanisms in defense against infectious diseases

* Separate chapters on immune-mediated skin diseases, leukemias and lymphomas, acquired immunodeficiency diseases, and tumor immunology