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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Life within you is a huge, roaring festival, and your immune system swiftly expels the truly dangerous, unwelcome gate-crashers.
Chapter 3: Three baffling discoveries formed the groundwork for the science of immunology.
Chapter 4: Dr. Jacques Miller found the thymus to be profoundly important indeed.
Chapter 5: Dr. Miller concluded that T cells originate in the thymus.
Chapter 6: Puzzling evidence led scientists to suspect that T cells weren’t the only lymphocytes.
Chapter 7: T cells and B cells are the body’s precise defenders.
Chapter 8: Susumu Tonegawa revealed how our bodies can detect an infinite array of antigens.
Chapter 9: We have two immune systems; together, they dictate how our body defends itself.
Chapter 10: Cells communicate via cytokines, which both spur and restrain immune-system attacks.
Chapter 11: Jason Greenstein battled Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a type of cancer that directly attacks the immune system.
Chapter 12: Jason defeated his cancer, but fell to assaults from his own immune system.
Description
An Elegant Defense (2019) is an erudite and approachable exploration of the immune system. Using the difficult story of a dear friend as a starting point, author Matt Richtel leads the reader through a mind-boggling tour of one of the world’s most complex systems – what he calls our “elegant defense.”
Who Should Listen
- Curious readers wondering how the immune system works
- Students of immunology
- People seeking better health