An Insider's Plague Year
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An Insider's Plague Year

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An Insider's Plague Year

About this book

In An Insider's Plague Year, Nobel laureate and prominent COVID-19 authority Professor Peter Doherty recounts his response to the pandemic as it developed from January 2020–February 2021. As citizens and governments around the world suddenly became acutely dependent on the capacity of scientists to understand and recommend appropriate public health policy responses to the disease, Doherty and his team were at the forefront.In his always conversational style, Doherty systematically provides a deep understanding of the virus and of the numerous areas of knowledge that have been brought together in the fight against it. Rendering complex medical and scientific issues accessible and providing a fascinating glimpse into how health experts have worked with governments to control and manage the challenge, Doherty also turns his mind to what we can hope for in the months and years ahead, considering even larger questions about the pivotal role of science in our lives.

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Information

Publisher
Melbourne University Press Digital
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9780522877526
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Prelude
  7. Part 1: Early days
  8. 1 The long road to December 2019
  9. 2 January to March 2020
  10. 3 The pandemic we had to have
  11. Part 2: Setting it Straight
  12. #1 Talking about COVID-19
  13. #2 Microbes, viruses and face masks in the COVID-19 Petri dish
  14. #3 Immuno, immunis, immunity …
  15. #4 Pustules, poxes and World Immunization Week
  16. #5 Horses for courses: An introduction to passive immunity
  17. #6 Back to basics: It’s all in the DNA … sort of
  18. #7 The red and the white of the war against SARS-CoV-2
  19. #8 Opening just one of many cell doors for COVID-19
  20. #9 Virtuous circulations in the COVID-19 universe
  21. #10 Slime, rhyme and snot in the time of COVID-19
  22. #11 On the nose with COVID-19
  23. #12 Common colds and the hopefully uncommon COVID-19
  24. #13 Hot and cold, wet and dry and the problem of confounding variables
  25. #14 Lessons learned from the first six months of COVID-19, Part 1
  26. #15 Lessons learned from the first six months of COVID-19, Part 2
  27. #16 Lessons learned from the first six months of COVID-19, Part 3
  28. #17 The ‘I’ language of immunology
  29. #18 Selected repertoires and key performers in the individualised immunescape
  30. #19 Shapely interactions and love at first sight in the enduring Ig landscape
  31. #20 Antibody dreaming and the Y in immunology
  32. #21 Protective Igs: The major focus of vaccines
  33. #22 Affinity, avidity, IgM, IgG, serological surveys and ‘antibody passports’
  34. #23 Reinfection in COVID-19, Part 1
  35. #24 Reinfection in COVID-19, Part 2
  36. #25 Reinfection in COVID-19, Part 3: Implication for vaccines, antibody passports and herd immunity
  37. #26 Self and non-self: Autoimmunity and immunological tolerance
  38. #27 First Monday in October
  39. #28 A virology Nobel
  40. #29 Surveillance of self: The major histocompatibility complex
  41. #30 Of mice, men and women in the deep history of H-2 genetics
  42. #31 People and the institutions they build: An Australian story
  43. #32 The discovery
  44. #33 T cell recognition
  45. #34 Hitting the virus production factories
  46. #35 Sensing and responding
  47. #36 Virus, pathogenesis, epidemiology and vaccination in the complex ecosystems of us
  48. #37 Pathogenesis, infection and the ecosystem within
  49. #38 Local versus systemic, vaccine versus virus
  50. #39 Trafficking to the nodes
  51. #40 Vaccination versus infection: The effector and protective response
  52. #41 In the node, Part 1
  53. #42 In the node, Part 2
  54. Part 3: My first COVID year
  55. 4 With challenge comes opportunity: The next eighty years
  56. 5 Science writing for normal and not-so-normal times
  57. 6 My brief life with cartoons
  58. 7 Communicating on the Australian scene
  59. 8 Communicating across the planet
  60. 9 In the Institute in the pandemic
  61. Coda
  62. Commonly used abbreviations and technical terms
  63. Acknowledgements
  64. Notes
  65. Further resources
  66. Index

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