This book deals with the fascinating set of diseases in which the immune system turns traitor and begins to attack the body. The attack may take many forms, culminating in serious skin disease, or disorders affecting the joints, heart, lungs, kidneys, and central nervous system, to name only a few of the possibilities. While the severity of the diseases varies considerably, as many as one in twenty people develop an autoimmune disease at some point during their lifetime. Friendly Fire is the first book to explain the nature of these diseases for a general audience. For each of these conditions, the authors provide a short historical guide, followed by a comprehensive description of the components of the normally functioning immune system. The authors explain how autoimmune diseases develop and how they interact to cause potentially lethal conditions. They highlight the enormous diversity of self-destructive diseases along with current types of treatment and the exciting range of recent ideas about future therapy.

Friendly Fire: Explaining Autoimmune Disease

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Morrow, John

Isenberg, David

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Oxford University Press

Lupus is a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks itself, culminating in disease which can affect multiple organs, including the skin, joints, heart, lungs, kidneys, and central nervous system. Lupus currently affects about 30,000 patients in the UK, 500,000 in the United States and tens of thousands throughout Europe. Whilst there have been great advances in research into the genetic background of lupus and new interventions such as stem-cell transplants, there is still a surprising lack of information available for patients, carers and their families. Written by the former President of the British Society for Rheumatology and the current co-director of the Lupus Center of Excellence in Pittsburgh, USA, this new edition of Lupus: The Facts reflects major developments in our understanding of the causes of lupus.

Lupus (The ^AFacts Series)

Manzi, Susan

From their limited use in China during World War II, for example, to their often clandestine use in Vietnam ferrying supplies before the war escalated in 1964 and 1965 when their role became more prominent-and public-private military contractors (PMCs) have played made essential contributions to the success and failures of the military and United States. Today, with an emphasis on force restructuring mandated by the Pentagon, the role of PMCs, and their impact on policy-making decisions is at an all time peak. This work analyzes that impact, focusing specifically on PMCs in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Isenberg dissects their responsibilities, the friction that exists between contractors and military commanders, problems of protocol and accountability, as well as the problems of regulation and control that PMC companies create for domestic politics.
Isenberg organizes his work thematically, addressing all facets of PMCs in the current conflict from identifying who the most influential companies are and how they got to that point, to the issues that the government, military, and contractors themselves face when they take the field. He also analyzes the problem of command, control, and accountability. It is no secret that PMCs have been the source of consternation and grief to American military commanders in the field. As they work to establish more routine protocols in the field, however, questions are also being raised about the role of the contractors here at home. The domestic political arena is perhaps the most crucial battleground on which the contractors must have success. After all, they make their corporate living off of taxpayer dollars, and as such, calls for regulation have resonated throughout Washington, D.C., growing louder as the profile of PMCs increases during the current conflict.

Shadow Force: Private Security Contractors in Iraq (Praeger Security International)

History

Middle East

Praeger

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