The Autoimmune Diseases, Sixth Edition: A Comprehensive Guide

Author: M. Eric Gershwin

Overview: The Autoimmune Diseases, Sixth Edition, is a comprehensive guide that emphasizes the “3 Ps” of 21st Century medicine: precision, prediction, and prevention. This book covers the modern systems approach to biology, involving large amounts of personalized, ongoing physiologic data (“omics”) coupled with advanced methods of analysis, new tests of genetic engineering, such as CRISPR, auto-inflammatory diseases, autoimmune responses to tumor immunotherapy, and information on normal immune response and disorders.

Key Features:

• Comprehensive Overview: Each of the major autoimmune disorders is discussed by researchers and clinical investigators experienced in dealing with patients.
• Immunologic Basis: Chapters emphasize the immunologic basis of the disease as well as the use of immunologic diagnostic methods and treatments.
• Cross-Cutting Issues: The book also covers several cross-cutting issues related to the recognition and treatment of autoimmune diseases, including chapters on the measurement of autoantibodies and T cells, the use of biomarkers as early predictors of disease, and new methods of treatment.
• Hot Topics: New, updated chapters that emphasize hot topics in the field, e.g., research on auto-inflammatory diseases and autoimmune responses following cancer immunotherapy.

Why This Book Matters: This book gives a thorough and important overview on the entire field, framing individual disease chapters with information that compares and contrasts each disorder and its therapy. It provides thorough, up-to-date information on specific diseases, along with clinical applications in an easily found reference for clinicians and researchers interested in certain diseases. It keeps readers abreast of current trends and emerging areas in the field, ensuring that content is not only up-to-date, but applicable and relevant.

Publication Details:

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Publication Date: October 15, 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780128121023, 9780128122426