A university professor who usually writes for highly specialized journals explodes all sorts of myths about allergies in this fascinating book â?? and does so while avoiding jargon and passive-voice sentences that too frequently infect the prose of academics.
Gregg Mitman teaches medical history and science/technology courses at the University of Wisconsin. His interest in allergies is both professional and personal. He suffered terribly from bronchial asthma as a child, and his son is a sufferer, too.