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Immunology seen through the dark glass of autoimmunity

Warwick Anderson and Ian R. Mackay: Intolerant Bodies. A short history of autoimmunity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014, 264pp, $25.95 PB

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Tauber, A.I. Immunology seen through the dark glass of autoimmunity. Metascience 24, 385–391 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-014-9980-x

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