num_pages: 544
description: Discusses the revolution in medicine called immunotherapy, a form of medicine that takes its lessons from the very bodies it seeks to treat. Traces the story of how doctors have learned to use the immune systems to develop a wide array of cutting-edge therapies. This absorbing narrative navigates the politics of discovery &amp; explains the dazzling complexities of human blood, tracking the potent molecules &amp; powerful cells at the heart of the immune response. A fast-paced account of medicine-in-the-making. "A wrenching history of the peril of shopping around in the body s own pharmacy for miracle drugs."
language: English
title: Commotion in the Blood: Life, Death, & the Immune System
titlecomplete: Commotion in the Blood: Life, Death, & the Immune System
genres: Medicine, Biology, History, Science, Disease, Nonfiction, Medical
ratings_count: 80
publisher: Henry Holt & Co., Inc.