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Allergic - How Our Immune System Reacts to a Changing World (Hardcover)
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Allergic - How Our Immune System Reacts to a Changing World (Hardcover)
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An eye-opening investigation - combining reporting, history and
cutting-edge science - into allergies and their rise in recent
decades Hay fever. Peanut allergies. Eczema. Billions of people
worldwide have some form of allergy; millions have one severe
enough to seriously endanger their health. And over the past
decade, the number of people diagnosed with allergy has been
steadily increasing, an ever-growing medical burden on individuals,
families, and our health care system. Medical anthropologist
Theresa MacPhail, herself an allergy sufferer whose father died of
a bee sting, set out to understand why. The result is a holistic
and deeply researched examination of allergies, from their first
medical description in 1819 to the mind-bending new treatments that
are giving patients hope. MacPhail spent years interviewing
hundreds of experts, patients and activists, in an effort to
understand how recent changes in our environment and lifestyle are
contributing to the dramatic rise in cases globally. Pollution,
chemicals, antibiotics and, increasingly, climate change are all
making our immune systems become more and more irritated. But, as
she shows us in Allergic, understanding what is irritating us and
why will help us to craft better environments in the future-so we
can all breathe easier.
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