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Title: How the Immune System Works by Lauren Ph.D. Sompayrac ISBN: 0-632-04702-X Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Easy to read and learn with.
Comment: I am a Board Certified Allergist/Immunologist and I bought the book to help me to solidify my knowledge of basic immunology.
Since the American Board of Allergy and Immunology only issues 10-year certification --and I took the exam the first time in 1991 -- I have to take a multiple choice recert exam soon. The book is helping me prepare by reviewing current basic Immunology in a very easy to understand (and therefore easy to REMEMBER) fashion.
The prose is not prosaic, it's fun! The writing describes the immune system's structure and functioning clearly and logically. It does an excellent job of tying everything together, which can be difficult with the expanding "octopus" of detail that comprises modern immunology.
I highly recommend this for physicians and students of medicine or immunology.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic; the perfect exposition of basic immunology
Comment: After slogging through Janeway's _Immunobiology_ and most of a course in immunology, I had memorized a lot of facts but still understood next to nothing about the overall "design" and operation of the immune system. I found _How the Immune System Works_ the perfect antidote to my existential ennui. I recommend it highly and wish there were similar books on other related subjects.
The main pleasure of this book is that it's very "why-oriented" - Sompayrac explains how each mechanism fits into the grand scheme of immunology. Another key innovation is that he points out areas of immunology that aren't well understood yet; that way, you can recognize them as gaps in the science at large rather than as gaps in your own understanding.
Other virtues include brevity, judicious omission of irrelevant detail (this book omits the customary table of 30-odd cytokines along with a list of the 10 or 15 actions of each, for example), and an engaging and readable style.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beuatifully written and to the point!
Comment: Lauren Sompayrac has done something completely original. He has written a book on immunology in prose that sparkles. The book is easy and fun to read, and very comprehensible. When you are finished, you will understand the basics of immunology. This is no mean feat in a subject as complex as this. The book creates a strong, coherent structure upon which further, more detailed knowledge of immunology can be added if it is your goal,say, to do immunological research.
For students, this is the perfect book with which to start. For the average doctor in clinical practice, Sompayrac's book contains everything you need to know. The writing is so clear, strong and direct that I intend to read Sompayrac's other books on Virology and Cancer, two other extremely important areas of medicine.
I have been practicing medicine for 30 years, and I can tell you that most medical writing is turgid, dull, boring, flatulant, pedantic, and coma-inducing...in other words, God awful. I am hoping that medical book publishers take notice of this man's work, other writers will follow suit, and perhaps he will start a new trend.
Frederick A. Pereira, MD
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Title: How Pathogenic Viruses Work by Lauren Sompayrac ISBN: 0763720828 Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Pub Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Immunobiology by Charles Janeway, Mark Walport, Paul Travers ISBN: 081533642X Publisher: Garland Pub Pub. Date: 21 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $64.95 |
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Title: Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple (2003 Edition) by Mark Gladwin, Bill, MD Trattler ISBN: 0940780496 Publisher: Medmaster Pub. Date: 15 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Cellular and Molecular Immunology by Abul K. Abbas, Andrew H. Lichtman, Jordan S. Pober ISBN: 0721600085 Publisher: W B Saunders Pub. Date: 14 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $58.95 |
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Title: At War Within: The Double-Edged Sword of Immunity by William R. Clark ISBN: 0195115686 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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