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Title: A Commotion in the Blood: Life, Death, and the Immune System (The Sloan Technology Series) by Stephen S. Hall ISBN: 0-8050-5841-9 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Accessible to all
Comment: I thoroughly enjoyed Hall's account of the development of immunotherapy. I read it cover to cover. You need not be an immunologist to enjoy this book, but you might want to become one after.
Rating: 4
Summary: excellent but bothersome
Comment: This is well-written and generally solid, but has a couple of flaws. The biggest is that the author seems to have been taken in by some researchersd who most likely were sources. The result: the book gives far too much credence to the work of an early 20th century doctor named Coley, whose family has funded research since and has campaigned for credit. Coley's work, while creative and provocative-- for which he deserves credit-- was not good science, and the book made it sound as if it was true. This troubled me throughout my reading. The writer also seems to take some pretty hard (and unfair) shots at a prominent current researcher, Steve Rosenberg. Again, the author was most likely listening too closely to a couple of sources. Rosenberg is far more likely to win a Nobel Prize than to fade into nothingness, as the author implies. He was the first person to stimulate the immune system to cure certain cancers. Nonetheless, this is a first-rate book, and if I didn't know anything about the subject (which I do) I would have enjoyed it even more than I did even including the flaws.
Rating: 4
Summary: a romp through tumor immunology
Comment: This is an engaging read! An excellent introduction for the reader curious about the history of cancer biology/immunology especially from the standpoint of clinical therapies. It also provides a glimpse of the inside workings of research institutes and scientific collaborations. The only reservation I have is that the prose tends to the purple but that is not too great a distraction from the skillful storytelling. Read it!
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Title: One Renegade Cell : How Cancer Begins by Robert A. Weinberg ISBN: 0465072763 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.50 |
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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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Title: Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene by Stephen S. Hall, James Watson ISBN: 0195151593 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Merchants of Immortality : Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension by Stephen S. Hall ISBN: 0618095241 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 18 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: How the Immune System Works by Lauren Ph.D. Sompayrac ISBN: 063204702X Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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