Clinical Immunology

This book is the state-of-the-art, two-volume reference source in clinical immunology, written and edited by international experts in the field of immunology. The up-to-date and fully comprehensive coverage of this subject is illustrated with numerous photographs and superb illustrations. Basic science, systemic immune diseases, organ-specific inflammatory diseases, transplantation, neoplasms of the immune system, allergic diseases, therapeutics and diagnostic immunology are all covered in a clear, concise and comprehensive manner. A full revision and update on the therapeutic aspects of disease. Easy-to-use, two-colour design throughout. 645 explanatory illustrations (248 photographs and 397 2-colour line drawings) Boxes of "key points" throughout the text to enable you to source important points quickly. "Clinical Relevance" boxes within basic science sections to help you understand difficult immunologic processes. FREE CD-ROM - unique in providing you with a huge library of superb photographs and line art that can be downloaded and used for teaching, research and presentations.

Equine Clinical Immunology offers comprehensive information on equine immunological disorders. • Provides a complete, equine-specific reference on clinical immunology • Focuses on clinically relevant information for the diagnosis and treatment of horses with immune disorders • Illustrates the concepts discussed using drawings, photographs, and tables • Presents key concepts, clinical assessment information, and treatment approaches in text boxes for ease of use • Offers a practical, clinically oriented approach ideal for equine specialists

This book begins with basic concepts of immunology and then details the immunological aspects of various disease states involving major organs of the body. Designed as an introduction for practitioners and residents, this book explores how we can better understand disease and its treatment through clinical immunology.

Preceded by Immunology / edited by Angela Hall, Christine Yates. 2010.

Immunity is as old as illness itself, yet historians have only just begun to take up the challenge of reconstructing the modern transformation of attempts to protect against disease. Crafting Immunity assembles in one volume the most recent efforts of an international group of scholars to place the diverse practices of immunity in their historical contexts. It is this diversity that provides the book with its greatest source of strength. Collectively, the papers in this volume suggest that it was the craft-like, small-scale, and local conditions of clinical medicine that turned the immunity of individuals and populations into biomedical objects. That is to say, the modern conception of immunity was at least as much the product of the work of healing as it was the systematic result of discoveries about the immune system.Working outside the narrow confines of laboratory histories, Crafting Immunity is the first attempt to set the problems of immunity into a variety of social, technological, institutional and intellectual contexts. It will appeal not only to historians and sociologists of health, but also to social and cultural historians interested in the biomedical creation of modern health regimens.

This book fills a gap at the interface of fundamental and clinical immunology, and allergy. For many years, experts in fundamental immunology and physicians involved in clinical immunology and allergy worked separately – but the fundamental immunologists did not have medical qualifications and the physicians were not involved in the field of fundamental research. Written by a teacher and an expert in both fields, this book combines current knowledge on basic immunology and immunopathology with clinical comments that complete the whole picture. Immunology is a complex science, which requires a simplified approach in order to be taught and understood effectively. This book is based on the authors’ long experience in teaching undergraduate, postgraduate students and interns both basic and clinical immunology. Reviewing a variety of important components related to the immune system, it is clearly and logically structured, and enriched by figures, tables and boxes with important immunology definitions. Each chapter has its own bibliography, and most units include links to electronic quizzes and audio files to accompany readers step by step. This easy-to-follow volume concludes with suggestions for future study. It is a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as medical practitioners.