Allergic : how our immune system reacts to a changing world /
by MacPhail, Theresa.
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BookPublisher: UK : Allen Lane, 2023Description: 352 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780241638163 (hbk.) :; 024163816X (hbk.) :.Classification number: 616.97 MACSubject(s): Allergy -- Popular works | Health and Fitness | Health and Wellbeing | Clinical & internal medicine | Allergies | Popular science | Human biology | Popular medicine & healthSummary: 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.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Book - Adult Hardback | Southport Library | Adult Fiction | 616.97 MAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 003115507X |
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.
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