<p><b>A history of autoimmunity that validates the experience of patients while challenging assumptions about the distinction between the normal and the pathological.</b></p><p>Winner of the NSW Premier''s History Award of the Arts NSW</p><p>Autoimmune diseases, which affect 5 to 10 percent of the population, are as unpredictable in their course as they are paradoxical in their cause. They produce persistent suffering as they follow a drawn-out, often lifelong, pattern of remission and recurrence. Multiple sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and type 1 diabetes¿the diseases considered in this book¿are but a handful of the conditions that can develop when the immune system goes awry.</p><p><i>Intolerant Bodies</i> is a unique collaboration between Ian Mackay, one of the prominent founders of clinical immunology, and Warwick Anderson, a leading historian of twentieth-century biomedical science. The authors narrate the changing scientific understanding of the cause of autoimmunity and
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