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" Allergy : "
Mark Jackson.
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BL
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1025479
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b779849
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| Main Entry
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Jackson, Mark,1959-
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| Title & Author
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Allergy : : the history of a modern malady /\ Mark Jackson.
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| Edition Statement
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1st pbk. ed.
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| Publication Statement
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London :: Reaktion,, 2007.
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288 pages :: illustrations ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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1861893337
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: 9781861893338
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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1. Histories -- 2. Strange reactions -- 3. Allergy in the clinic -- 4. The global economy of allergy -- 5. Civilization and disease -- 6. Resisting modernity -- 7. Futures.
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| Abstract
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"Allergy is a modern malady. A century ago, even the term allergy was unknown, and ailments such as asthma and eczema were considered to be rare and non-fatal conditions that afflicted only the upper classes of Western society. Yet, as Mark Jackson reveals in this ground-breaking book, by the 1990s allergy had exploded into a set of diseases of great medical, cultural and political significance." "In Allergy, Jackson traces how allergy became the archetypal 'disease of civilization', generating global political concerns about the relationship between health and the environment and stimulating anxieties about the detrimental effects of modern living."--Jacket.
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Allergy.
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Social medicine.
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Disease Outbreaks-- history.
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History, 20th Century.
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Hypersensitivity-- history.
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Social Environment.
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Allergy.
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Social medicine.
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| Dewey Classification
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614.5993
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| LC Classification
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RA645.A44J3 2007
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WD 300J13a 2007
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