Immunology & Immunology an Illustrated Outline & Male Immunology

by Ivan M. Roitt, Jonathan Brostoff, David K. Male

The 4th Edition of this pocket-sized, illustrated dictionary offers a concise, evidence-based approach to the immune system. The book divides the subject into five easy-to-review The Immune System, Antigen Recognition, Immune Responses, Immunopathology, and Immunological Techniques. Each of these sections is then sub-divided into short, paragraphs that define key terms and concepts. Fifty new immunological definitions in the Index of Terms, in addition to newly updated definitions and vocabulary, reflect the many advances in the field. Readers will appreciate the highly organized, cross-referenced approach that allows them to master key concepts. Lists core terms and concepts that are followed by short, straightforward definitions.
Amplifies the text with simple color diagrams and illustrations and cross-referencing between definitions.
Offers easy and rapid access to straightforward, easily understood definitions in the Index of Terms. Provides three updated and reorganized Antigen Recognition, Immune Responses, and Immunopathology.
Adds 50 new definitions to the Index of Terms that reflect the rapid developments in the field, and updates all others.
Enhances terminology with 12 new color illustrations adapted by the author from his interactive CD-ROMs.

160 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2003

About the author

Ivan Maurice Roitt was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Balliol College, Oxford University. He was Head of the Department of Immunology at University College London from 1967 to 1992, and is currently Honorary Director of the Centre for Investigative & Diagnostic Oncology at Middlesex University, London.

In 1956, together with Deborah Doniach and Peter Campbell, he made the classic discovery of thyroglobulin autoantibodies in Hashimoto's thyroiditis which helped to open the whole concept of a relationship between autoimmunity and human disease. The work was extended to an intensive study of autoimmune phenomena in pernicious anemia and primary bilary cirrhosis.

In 1983 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and has been elected to Honorary Membership of the Royal College of Physicians and appointed Honorary Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine. He was awarded the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 1964. [wikipedia]