Lise Barneoud

Hidden Guests

Migrating Cells and How the New Science of Microchimerism Is Redefining Human Identity
Übersetzer: Haslam, Bronwyn

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Part mind-bending medical mystery-part cutting-edge science-Hidden Guests uncovers the phenomenon of microchimerism: the presence of foreign cells inside our own bodies. The incredible story of how those cells might change everything we know about the immune system, lineage, and identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greystone Books, Canada
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781778402661
• ISBN-10: 1778402666
• Artikelnr.: 72221991

Autorenporträt

Lise Barnéoud is a freelance science journalist who regularly contributes to Le Monde and Mediapart. In addition to Hidden Guests, she is the author of two books about vaccines, Immunisés? and Vaccins. She won the 2008 Fondation Varenne award for science journalism in a national daily newspaper and the Trophées Signatures Santé’s 2016 Grand Prix.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction
I. Charting Maternal Waters
II. Semantic Contagion, Barbarian Invasions
III. I’ve Got You Under My Skin
IV. Back to the Future
V. The Other in Me
VI. The Other Mes
VII. Greater Than Our Parts
VIII. Deciphering Cellular Babel
IX. The Dark Side
X. Of Zombies and Monkeys
Epilogue: Ecologizing Immunology
Translator’s Note
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index