TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kendall,Marion D.
TI  - Dying to live: how our bodies fight disease 
SN  - 9780511525346 (ebook)
AV  - QR181.7 .K46 1998
U1  - 616.07/9 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Immune system
KW  - Popular works
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Introduction -- Molecules of distinction -- Distinctive families -- Patterns of life -- Repelling invaders -- The fight begins -- The main campaigns -- Life after death -- Survival of the fittest -- Struggle for survival -- The new millennium -- Index
N2  - How do our bodies fight disease? Written in clear accessible style this book gives an account of the inner workings of our immune systems. Aimed at the general reader it looks at fascinating areas of science including fever, AIDS and cancer. Central to the book, from which the title derives, is the idea that in the war against disease our bodies sacrifice millions of cells - antibodies and other specialized elements of the immune system. Only by pitting all manner of complex immune cells against such infectious agents can we continue to survive in the world. Of interest to anyone who has wondered what is really happening when we get ill and recover
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511525346
ER  -