Reviews for Commotion In the Blood: Life, Death and The Immune System (Sloan Technology Series)

The average rating for Commotion In the Blood: Life, Death and The Immune System (Sloan Technology Series) based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-03-31 00:00:00 Angela Keith A fascinating survey of the history of anti-cancer research. It’s good to know some of these names and the stories associated with those who have tried to either cure cancer or at least just slow it down a bit. One of the more frustrating and sometimes terrifying aspects of the whole story is the extent to which market economics affects how research is carried out; so many avenues seem to have been closed off mostly because they cost too much to pursue. Whether humanity might have benefitted from the pursuit no matter how much it cost remains undecided.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-08-24 00:00:00 Oksana Zaslavskaya I’ve been interested in learning more about the story of the immune system - not just a textbook recitation of how (we think) it works, but the human stories of how scientists have figured that out over time. After googling, a bit, this book came up recommended enough that I gave it a shot. I didn’t start out interested in cancer immunotherapy, in particular, but it made a fine frame on which to hang the stories, and was interesting, in a “wonder what’s happened in the 25 years since this was published” kind of way. It’s a bit dense, and rather out of date, but the stories from the late 1800s through the time of publication haven’t changed much, and they were told in an interesting enough way to pull me through in the end.