Product Description

Efficiently master key immunology principles! State-of-the-art coverage brings you all of the latest scientific and clinical knowledge, including a new chapter on the use of antibodies and cytokines in immunotherapy. Crystal-clear illustrations, detailed clinical cases, and a user-friendly presentation make immunology remarkably easy to understand.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #127828 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

About the Author
Dr Nairn has taught immunology to medical students since 1981, first at the University of Michigan Medical School and, since 1995, at Creighton University School of Medicine. He has participated in developing curricula and in school-wide curriculum revision, leading the biannual workshop on Teaching Microbiology and Immunology to Medical Students sponsored by the Association of Medical School M & I Chairs for the last six years.

Dr Nairn trained in the UK obtaining his PhD at the University of London and National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London. His research interests have included MHC antigen structure and function, antigen processing, cell activation in the inflammatory response etc. His laboratory has been funded by theNational Institute of Health, American Cancer Society etc, and he is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles, chapters and reviews in immunology and related research areas. In addition to research in immunology, Dr Nairn hascollaborated in research studies in medical education, particularly with respect to case based learning.

Matthew Helbert is a Consultant Clinical Immunologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at St Bartholomew's Hospital London. He runs a primary immunodeficiency clinical service and so has regular contact with patients. In addition, he runs a diagnostic laboratory. He is involved in teaching to undergraduate medical students and in training specialist registrars. He has a special interest in immunological memory.

Customer Reviews

The lifesaver for understanding immunology!
I'm a first year medic and have spent ages in my uni library looking for an immunology textbook which is comprehensive and detailed, but at the same time explains things in a clear and consise manner. Well, this is the one that gets my vote! Also recommended to me by my lecturers, this book is a lifesaver when it comes to understanding immunology! It's great as it splits the broad subject of immunology into five sections, with great colour diagrams to aid learning. Throughout each chapter it highlights bits of info which are linked to clinical medicine, and also provides a summary at the end of each chapter which recaps the major concepts. An enjoyable, interesting and useful read!

Concise and well-structured text
This is generously illustrated, in full colour throughout, with well drawn cartoons helpful to understanding. One of the principle attractions has to be the concise, well structured text, with neatly divided chapter structures greatly improving readability over more comprehensive alternatives. The 'for medical students' refers to the authors efforts to maintain clinical relevance throughout and to assist in an understanding of how the basic immunological components and concepts fit into the bigger picture of a varied and adaptable defence system. This they have achieved through the use of multiple clinical 'boxed texts' and through the inclusion of helpful summary chapters that build on the material introduced in the previous sections. What the name does not refer to is any reduction of content, which is as detailed as any medical undergraduate will ever need!

A very hard to understand immunology book
This book is very hard to follow unless you know immunology inside out already. One of the main problems with this book is that it tries to explain the different aspects of the immune system in such a complicated and convoluted ways that it's pretty much impossible to understand let alone learn from. Instead of explaining the processes in a logical way it jumps around between the adaptive and innate immune system all the way through the book.

I'm in my third year now and have been studying immunology in since my first year and still find this book a total pain to work from as I’m sure the answers are in this book somewhere in this book but it's written in such a annoying way that you start to loose the will to live before you've even started! Even my lecturers agree that it's not user friendly.

It general appearance isn't bad and it does have some good pictures, however descriptions along side them are often unclear and misleading.

This book is probably great for immunology professors but for us students you might as well use is as a door stop!