Product Description: Immunopharmacology is defined as that part of pharmacology that deals with drugs acting on the immune system and, in addition, with the pharmacological actions of substances derived from the immune system. In order to lend sharper definition to the term immunopharmacology the subject matter has been divided according to clinical and pragmatic criteria...read more

Product Description: An eminent scientist talks about the pharmaceutical industry, biotechnology and the future of drug research. In the course of our busy, technologically-driven lives, it is taken for granted that we respond to minor fluctuations in our health by taking pills – pills for headache and for toothache; sleeping pills and tranquilizers; pills to lower fever, quiet coughs, and clear the sinuses; medicines to reduce appetite; preparations to relieve heartburn; and many more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Die AnHinge der Immunpharmakologie reichen zuruck bisin die Tage, in denen Julius Wagner von Jauregg chronische Infektionen mit kiinstlich induziertem Fieber behandelte und in denen George Bernard Shaw die Stimulation der kurz zuvor von Metschnikoffbe schriebenen Phagozyten literarischzumtherapeutischen Prinzip der Zukunft erhob (, The doctor's dilemma')...read more