An epidemic of absence

An Epidemic of Absence
A new way of understanding allergies and autoimmune diseases

Moises Velasquez-Manoff
Content
Chapter 1—Meet Your Parasites
Chapter 2—Homo Squalidus: The Filthy Ape
Chapter 3—Island of Autoimmunity
Chapter 4—Parasites to Heal the Gut
Chapter 5—What Is Asthma For?
Chapter 6—Missing “Old Friends”
Chapter 7—Mom Matters Most
Chapter 8—The Disappearing Microbiota
Chapter 9—Community-Wide Derangement
Chapter 10—Multiple Sclerosis: Worms That Never Come, a Tardy Virus, and a Brain That Degenerates
Chapter 11—Modernity’s Developmental Disorder: Autism and the Superorganism
Chapter 12—Beyond Allergy and Autoimmunity: Inflammation and the Diseases of Civilization
Chapter 13—The Hookworm Underground: Crowdsourcing “The Cure” in an Age of Immune Dysfunction
Chapter 14—Life with the American Murderer, and the Body’s Largest Organ
Chapter 15—The Collapse of the Superorganism, and What to Do About It
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Glossary
Index

398 pages