《过敏的真相》内容简介
坚果过敏、花粉热、哮喘、湿疹……对大多数人来说，要么自己被令人沮丧的过敏困扰，要么身边有人存在这种情况。
过敏的问题，或许比你我想象中还要严重得多。目前，全世界有数十亿人患有某种形式的过敏症，据估计占全球总人口的30%～40%。
过敏并不一定致命，但会带来沉重的负担。多年遭受过敏困扰的人花费了大量的时间、金钱和精力，而且时常需要集中精神关注自己的症状。他们可能已经习惯了这样的生活，但即使如此，有时也很难忽视过敏带来的影响。一个吸入花粉的糟糕日子、一块发红发痒的皮肤、一场聚会……都有可能带来麻烦。
为什么我们的身体这么容易被扰乱得躁动不安？
流鼻涕、眼睛发痒、皮肤干燥、胃肠道不适、呼吸困难……这些过敏症状在试图告诉我们一些重要的事情，关乎21世纪人体免疫系统的整体健康状况。显然，我们的身体对每天接触到的大量天然和人造过敏原越来越敏感了。
这本书是一场对过敏的科学探究之旅、一个关于过敏这个现代医学谜团的完整故事，也是一场对过敏现象的全方位剖析：什么是过敏，为什么我们会过敏，为什么过敏在全球范围内越来越严重，以及在一个瞬息万变的世界中，过敏对人类的命运来说可能意味着什么。
作者：
特雷莎·麦克费尔（TheresaMacPhail）
医学人类学家，作家，史蒂文斯理工学院人文、艺术和社会科学学院副教授。她在美国加州大学伯克利分校获得医学人类学博士学位，是美国人类学协会会员、2018年NEH（美国国家人文基金会）公共学者，研究和写作集中在全球健康、生物医学和疾病领域。如今，她和她的猫以及数十亿尘螨一同住在布鲁克林。
译者：
秦琪凯，麻省总医院和哈佛医学院博士后研究员，博士毕业于上海科技大学（生命科学与技术学院和iHuman研究所）。译有《优雅的守卫者》。
The Truth about Allergies
Nut allergies, hay fever, asthma, eczema... For most people, they either suffer from frustrating allergies themselves, or someone close to them does.
Allergies may be a bigger problem than you and I think. Currently, billions of people worldwide suffer from some form of allergy, an estimated 30 to 40 percent of the global population.
Allergies don't have to be fatal, but they can be a heavy burden. People who suffer from allergies for years spend a lot of time, money and energy, and often need to concentrate on their symptoms. They may be used to living like this, but even so, it's sometimes hard to ignore the effects of allergies. A bad day inhaling pollen, a patch of red, itchy skin, a party... Could lead to trouble.
Why are our bodies so easily disturbed and agitated?
Runny nose, itchy eyes, dry skin, gastrointestinal discomfort, difficulty breathing... These allergy symptoms are trying to tell us something important about the overall health of the human immune system in the 21st century. Clearly, our bodies are becoming more sensitive to the large number of natural and man-made allergens we are exposed to every day.
This book is a journey of scientific inquiry into allergies, a complete story about the modern medical mystery of allergies, and a comprehensive dissection of the phenomenon: what they are, why we have them, why they are getting worse around the world, and what they may mean for the fate of humanity in a rapidly changing world.
Author:
Teresa MacPhail
A medical anthropologist, author and associate professor in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the Stevens Institute of Technology. She holds a Ph.D. in medical anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, is a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association and a 2018 NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Public Scholar, and her research and writing focuses on the areas of global health, biomedicine, and disease. Today, she lives in Brooklyn with her cats and billions of dust mites.
Translator:
Qikai Qin is a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He received his PhD from Shanghai University of Science and Technology (School of Life Science and Technology and Institute of iHuman). The Guardian of Grace.
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