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Science 13 July 2001:
Vol. 293. no. 5528, pp. 219 - 220
DOI: 10.1126/science.1055066
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Books

IMMUNOLOGY:
Divergent Thinking About Self-Defense

A review by Jonathan Howard

Tending Adam's Garden Evolving the Cognitive Immune Self
Irun R. Cohen
Academic Press, San Diego, 2000. 286 pp. $49.95, £32.95. ISBN 0-12-178355-3.

The War Within Us Everyman's Guide to Infection and Immunity
by Cedric Mims
Academic Press, San Diego, 2000. 288 pp. $39.95, $25.95. ISBN 0-12-498251-4.

These two books offer lay audiences two very different perspectives on the immune system. Cohen's holistic concepts on how the system functions are far from the views of most researchers in the field; Mims's account of how the body responds to microbial invaders falls much closer to the mainstream.
The author is at the Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Zuelpicher Strasse 47, D-50674 Cologne, Germany. E-mail: jonathan.howard{at}uni-koeln.de

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