Allergic : how our immune system reacts to a changing world / Theresa MacPhail.

MacPhail, Theresa, 1972-, author

UK : Allen Lane, 2023.

xviii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Originally published: New York: Random House.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hay fever. Peanut allergies. Eczema. Billions of people worldwide have some form of allergy; millions have one severe enough to seriously endanger their health. And over the past decade, the number of people diagnosed with allergy has been steadily increasing, an ever-growing medical burden on individuals, families, and our health care system. Medical anthropologist Theresa MacPhail, herself an allergy sufferer whose father died of a bee sting, set out to understand why.

9780241638163 (hbk)

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616.973

RC584

616.97
616.973

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