Immunology

by Ivan M. Roitt

Extensively updated, with new contributors, brilliant new illustrations and a wealth of supporting material online, this 7th edition offers you a carefully structured approach to learning the building blocks of the immune system as well as initiation and actions of the immune response. The website which accompanies this text gives access to all the images in the book, up to 20 detailed animation sequences (which link to further supporting text, illustrations, molecular models and video clips), 8 lectures which explain how the immune system responds to different infections or to tissue grafts, and a test bank of 300 USMLE-style questions.

Genres: Medicine, Reference, Medical, Science

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

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]

Reviews

[sou ha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cet ouvrage constitue un outil particulièrement didactique pour les étudiants en médecine et en sciences de la vie mais aussi pour les chercheurs et les cliniciens ..

On y retrouve le souci d'intégration des données expérimentales avec celles de l'histologie , de la pathologie et des exemples cliniques .

Il met l'accent sur les interactions entre immunité naturelle et immunité acquise, dont on sait maintenant que les relations sont beaucoup plus étroites qu'on ne l'avait imaginé .

[Prakriti · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have used it mainly as a reference book for immunology. It offers simple explanations supplemented with clear schematic diagrams. The text is interspersed with brief questions and answers where I find explanations to most of my doubts that arise while reading the subject. However, the book could be better organised.

[Nishelle D’souza · Rating 3 out of 5]

really old edition but still interesting and relevant