{"product_id":"allergic-how-our-immune-system-reacts-to-a-changing-world-9780593229194-b","title":"Allergic: How Our Immune System Reacts to a Changing World","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Theresa MacPhail\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Random House\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Random House\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Life Sciences - Biology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn \u003cb\u003e\"important and deeply researched\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e exploration of allergies, from their first medical description in 1819 to the cutting-edge science that is illuminating the changes in our environment and lifestyles that are making so many of us sick\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHay fever. Peanut allergies. Eczema. Either you have an allergy or you know someone who does. Billions of people worldwide--an estimated 30 to 40 percent of the global population--have some form of allergy. Even more concerning, over the last decade the number of people diagnosed with an allergy has been steadily increasing, placing an ever-growing medical burden on individuals, families, communities, and healthcare systems. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMedical anthropologist Theresa MacPhail, herself an allergy sufferer whose father died of a beesting, set out to understand why. In pursuit of answers, MacPhail studied the dangerous experiments of early immunologists as well as the mind-bending recent development of biologics and immunotherapies that are giving the most severely impacted patients hope. She scaled a roof with an air-quality controller who diligently counts pollen by hand for hours every day; met a mother who struggled to use WIC benefits for her daughter with severe food allergies; spoke with doctors at some of the finest allergy clinics in the world; and discussed the intersecting problems of climate change, pollution, and pollen with biologists who study seasonal respiratory allergies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the story of allergies: what they are, why we have them, and what that might mean about the fate of humanity in a rapidly changing world.","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45029018009751,"sku":"9780593229194","price":2071.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780593229194.webp?v=1768542419","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/allergic-how-our-immune-system-reacts-to-a-changing-world-9780593229194-b","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}