The Paradox of the Immune System

Protection, Chronic Inflammation, Autoimmune Disease, Cancer, and Pandemics

Louis Catania
Elsevier
284 pages
ISBN: 9780323951876
August 2022

This book provides a provocative approach to immunology as a "double-edged sword." While it is our greatest protector, it is also the cause of chronic inflammation that leads to autoimmune disease, cancer and infectious diseases like COVID-19. Sections cover the basic science of immunology and its intimate genetic associations, biomedical hypotheses asserting immunology as the basis of all human diseases, and elaborate on immunology as "the enemy within us."