Faith, Madness, and Spontaneous Human Combustion: What Immunology Can Teach Us About Self-Perception
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ISBN: 0425188523 / Publisher: Berkley, April 2003
Examines the elements of our immune systems such as the thymuses, bone marrow, and lymph nodes to show how they define us in extremely individual ways, and reveals how faith and love are in fact programmed into our genes.
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Intensely personal and brilliantly scientific, Faith, Madness, and Spontaneous Human Combustion reveals the startling ways in which science—especially immunology and pathology—shapes our destinies, and how something as intimate as our own identities can be connected to the intricate workings of the machines known as our bodies. “Each of the dozen essays in this far-ranging collection could be expanded into a book...Analogizing to striking effect, Callahan conveys both science and sympathy. It is hard to think of a type of reader who wouldn’t be intrigued by this fascinating book.”—Booklist “Callahan is a Carl Sagan, an Isaac Asimov of our times.”—Albuquerque Journal
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