TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jackson,Mark
TI  - Allergy: the history of a modern malady 
SN  - 9781861892713
AV  - RA645.A44 J32 2006
U1  - 614.5993 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - London
PB  - Reaktion Books
KW  - Allergy
KW  - History
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Hypersensitivity
KW  - history
KW  - Disease Outbreaks
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - Social Environment
N2  - "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."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -