Allergy Frontiers:clinical Manifestations
by Stephen T. Holgate /
2009 / English / PDF
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When I entered the field of allergy in the early 1970s, the
standard textbook was a few hundred pages, and the specialty was so
compact that texts were often authored entirely by a single
individual and were never larger than one volume. Compare this with
Allergy Frontiers: Epigenetics, Allergens, and Risk Factors, the
present s- volume text with well over 150 contributors from
throughout the world. This book captures the explosive growth of
our specialty since the single-author textbooks referred to above.
The unprecedented format of this work lies in its meticulous
attention to detail yet comprehensive scope. For example, great
detail is seen in manuscripts dealing with topics such as
“Exosomes, naturally occurring minimal antigen presenting units”
and “Neuropeptide S receptor 1 (NPSR1), an asthma susceptibility
gene.” The scope is exemplified by the unique approach to disease
entities normally dealt with in a single chapter in most texts. For
example, anaphylaxis, a topic usually confined to one chapter in
most textbooks, is given five chapters in Allergy Frontiers. This
approach allows the text to employ multiple contributors for a
single topic, giving the reader the advantage of being introduced
to more than one vi- point regarding a single disease.
When I entered the field of allergy in the early 1970s, the
standard textbook was a few hundred pages, and the specialty was so
compact that texts were often authored entirely by a single
individual and were never larger than one volume. Compare this with
Allergy Frontiers: Epigenetics, Allergens, and Risk Factors, the
present s- volume text with well over 150 contributors from
throughout the world. This book captures the explosive growth of
our specialty since the single-author textbooks referred to above.
The unprecedented format of this work lies in its meticulous
attention to detail yet comprehensive scope. For example, great
detail is seen in manuscripts dealing with topics such as
“Exosomes, naturally occurring minimal antigen presenting units”
and “Neuropeptide S receptor 1 (NPSR1), an asthma susceptibility
gene.” The scope is exemplified by the unique approach to disease
entities normally dealt with in a single chapter in most texts. For
example, anaphylaxis, a topic usually confined to one chapter in
most textbooks, is given five chapters in Allergy Frontiers. This
approach allows the text to employ multiple contributors for a
single topic, giving the reader the advantage of being introduced
to more than one vi- point regarding a single disease.