Allergy
The History of a Modern Malady
It attacks through foods, animals, and innumerable chemical combinations. It is among the most common and potentially lethal afflictions known. It is the allergy, the subject of Mark Jackson's fascinating chronicle.Jacksoninvestigates how the allergy became the archetypal disease of civilization, as it transformed from a fringe malady of the wealthy into one of the greatest medical disorders of the twentieth century. Jackson also examines the social and economic impact of the allergy, as it catalyzed a new health-conscious culture and created the wealth of some of the largest companies in the world today. Whether cats, crabgrass, or cheese is…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-86189-333-8
- EAN: 9781861893338
- Produktnummer: 2912626
- Verlag: Reaktion Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H21.8 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.0 cm 576 g
- Abbildungen: 25 black & white illustrations
- Gewicht: 576
Über den Autor
Mark Jackson is Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter. He is Reviews Editor of The Social History of Medicine and the author of many books including New-Born Child Murder: Women, Illegitimacy and the Courts in Eighteenth-Century England (1996), and The Borderland of Imbecility: Medicine, Society and the Fabrication of the Feeble Mind in Late Victorian and Edwardian England (2000).
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