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9780425188521

Faith, Madness and Spontaneous Human Combustion

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  • ISBN13:

    9780425188521

  • ISBN10:

    0425188523

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-04-01
  • Publisher: Berkley Trade

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Summary

Smells can make you fall in love. Parasites can make you crazy. Faith is in the genes. There are fires burning inside your cells and lies flaming in your thymus...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.

Author Biography

Gerald N. Callahan, Ph.D., is a professor of immunology at Colorado State University. He has more than thirty years of experience in modern biomedical research. His science articles have appeared in Nature, Journal of Experimental Medicine, and Journal of Immunology. Callahan is also a poet and essayist, and his writings have been published by Creative Nonfiction, Southern Poetry Review, and Cream City Review.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
SELF-CREATION
Chimera
3(16)
Self and Antiself
19(18)
Eating Dirt
37(22)
Self-Defense
59(24)
SELF-IMPROVEMENT
Light and Shadow
83(16)
Watermarks
99(20)
The Flame Within
119(20)
Madness
139(18)
SELF-TRANSFORMATION
Acorns of Faith
157(26)
Forgiving the Father
183(18)
Saved by Death
201(14)
The Metamorphosis
215(16)
Epilogue 231(2)
Sources 233

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