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Book Review
Nature Medicine 13, 1279 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nm1107-1279
The history and ideology of allergies
Fernando Martinez1
- Fernando D. Martinez, M.D. is director of the Arizona Respiratory Center at The University of Arizona, 501 N. Campbell Ave., Suite 2349, Tucson, AZ 85724-5030 e-mail: fernando@arc.arizona.edu
The first five chapters of Gregg Mitman's Breathing Space are a thorough, richly documented account of the advent of allergies in the United States. Mitman follows hay fever's history, starting in the mid-1800s, when it first became a public concern and was considered a disease of wealthy urbanites.
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