University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 81–82
University of Wisconsin, 98
Vaccines, 78–82, 235
Variolation, 79
Vicodin, 28
Vienna School of Medicine, 203
Vietnam War, 121–22
Vioxx, 228, 231
Viral load, 184–85
Virchow, Rudolf, 302
Viruses, 50–51, 52
Vitamin B, 228
Vitamin D, 234, 400
V(D)J recombination, 89–91
Volkswagen Beetle, 394
Von Domeny, Paul, 224, 225
Wacky Packages, 246
Waksman, Selman Abraham, 58–59
Walter Reed General Hospital, 66–67
“Wandering cells,” 39–40
Ward, Michael, 163
Werewolf, 202–3
Werner, Sabine, 300–305
West Virginia Mountaineers, 282
White blood cells, 73–74
Whitehead, Emma, 329–30
Wiener, Carolyn, 209–10
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, 69–70
Wolff, Sheldon, 123
World War I, 224
World War II, 57, 59, 96, 224–25
atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 60
bombing of Nagoya, 87
Wound healing, 300–307, 406
X chromosome, 215
Yale University Hospital, 109
Y chromosome, 215
Yeats, William Butler, 233
Yersin, Alexandre, 50
Yersinia pestis, 49–50
Yervoy (ipilimumab), 314–15, 317–18, 329
Yolk sac, 361
Zinkernagel, Rolf, 103
Zofran, 369
Zoon, Kathryn, 130–33
About the Author
MATT RICHTEL is a reporter for the New York Times. He received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of articles about distracted driving that he expanded into his first nonfiction book, A Deadly Wandering. A New York Times bestseller, A Deadly Wandering tells an intimate story of a fatal car crash and was named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews, Winnipeg Free Press, and Amazon. Richtel has appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air and PBS NewsHour, and in other major media outlets. He lives in San Francisco, California.
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Copyright
AN ELEGANT DEFENSE. Copyright © 2019 by Matt Richtel. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Richtel, Matt, author.
Title: Elegant defense : the extraordinary new science of the immune system : a tale in four lives / Matt Richtel.
Description: First edition. | New York, NY : William Morrow, [2019] | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018038019| ISBN 9780062698537 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780062698490 (pbk.) | ISBN 9780062699107 (large print)
Subjects: LCSH: Immune system—Popular works. | Immunology—Popular works. | Immunologic diseases—Patients.
Classification: LCC QR181.7 .R53 2019 | DDC 616.07/9—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018038019
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Digital Edition MARCH 2019 ISBN: 978-0-06-269850-6
Version 01282019
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-269853-7
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