A commotion in the blood
Subtitle: life, death, and the immune system
By: Stephen S. Hall.
Edition: 1st Owl Books ed.
Series: The Sloan technology series; The Sloan technology series; Sloan technology series
Publisher: Henry Holt
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
Subjects: Immune System -- Popular Works; Immunotherapy -- Popular Works
Genres: Popular Works.
Other titles: Blood
Notes: "An Owl book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-515) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: "shooting rubber bands at the stars"; title: "Laudable pus"; title: "The man who does the most work does the best work"; title: Bleak house; title: The method of choice; title: The Coley phenomenon; title: In search of an interferon; title: Lymphodrek; title: "The cloning of interferon and other mistakes"; title: "One of my best known accidents"; title: The silk purse years; title: The rise of the T cell chauvinists; title: To be in motion; title: The end of the beginning?; title: "There's just so much you can learn from a mouse"; title: "One plus one equals ten"; title: "Beautiful living things"; title: "Dr. Levy's favorite guinea pig"; title: A piece of misleading news; title: The next great magic bullet; title: Epilogue: Metaphors, manic depression, and the "C" word.