EAN: 9780241638163

ALLERGIC - THERESA MACPHAIL GEBUNDEN

An eye-opening investigation - combining reporting  history and cutting-edge science - into
allergies and their rise in recent decades 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. The result is a holistic and deeply
researched examination of allergies  from their first medical description in 1819 to the
mind-bending new treatments that are giving patients hope. MacPhail spent years interviewing
hundreds of experts  patients and activists  in an effort to understand how recent changes in
our environment and lifestyle are contributing to the dramatic rise in cases globally.
Pollution  chemicals  antibiotics and  increasingly  climate change are all making our immune
systems become more and more irritated. But  as she shows us in Allergic  understanding what is
irritating us and why will help us to craft better environments in the future-so we can all
breathe easier.

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