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Immunotherapy of Disease

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. T. J. Hamblin

    1. Department of Pathology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Bournemouth, UK
      Department of Haematology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Boscombe Bournemouth, UK

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Part of the book series: Immunology and Medicine (IMME, volume 14)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Bone Marrow Transplantation, Thymus Transplantation and Thymic Factors in the Treatment of Congenital Immune Deficiency States

    • A. J. Barrett
    Pages 1-20

  3. Intravenous Immunoglobulin

    • A. C. Newland, P. A. Veys
    Pages 21-42

  4. The Interferons

    • S. D. Griffiths, D. W. Galvani, J. C. Cawley
    Pages 43-69

  5. Antilymphocyte Antibodies: Polyclonal and Monoclonal

    • A. J. Bell
    Pages 71-97

  6. Plasma Exchange in Immunotherapy

    • C. D. Pusey
    Pages 99-126

  7. Immunotherapy with Interleukin-2

    • A. J. Bell
    Pages 127-142

  8. Modifications of Monoclonal Antibody for Immunotherapy

    • T. J. Hamblin
    Pages 143-166

  9. Immunological Effects of Blood Transfusion

    • D. P. Singal
    Pages 167-190

  10. Cyclosporin

    • J. R. Chapman
    Pages 191-225

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 227-233
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About this book

Immunotherapy began in 1774 when the Dorset farmer Benjamin Jesty inoculated his wife and two sons with the pus from the teat of a cow suffering from cow pox, using his wife's knitting needle as a vaccinating implement. It has made slow progress. Meanwhile the science of Immunology has burgeoned so much that if all immunologists read every page of the Journal of Immunology, let alone the other Immunology journals, then they would have no time left to write for it. I am pleased that some of them have found the time to write for this volume. In spite of the rapid expansion in immuno­ logical knowledge and the undreamt of complexity of the immune system that has been unravelled, immunologists have remained until recently erudite but therapeutically effete. Indeed anyone purporting to treat disease by immuno­ logical methods has been in danger of being labelled a quack or a crackpot. Happily things are changing. The nine chapters of this volume detail nine quite different approaches to manipulating the immune system for therapeutic benefit. All are experimental and they have been attended with greater or lesser degrees of success. In some cases their main effect has been to elucidate the complexity of the problem. On the other hand, there are people alive and well today as a result of these approaches who would otherwise have perished. Immunotherapy is here to stay and it can only get better.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Pathology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Bournemouth, UK

    T. J. Hamblin

  • Department of Haematology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Boscombe Bournemouth, UK

    T. J. Hamblin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Immunotherapy of Disease

  • Editors: T. J. Hamblin

  • Series Title: Immunology and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1844-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7462-0045-2Published: 28 February 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7322-6Published: 22 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1844-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 234

  • Topics: Immunology

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