Landmark Papers in Allergy: Seminal Papers in Allergy with Expert Commentaries

Landmark Papers in Allergy: Seminal Papers in Allergy with Expert Commentaries

Edited by Aziz Sheikh, Thomas Platts-Mills, and Allison Worth

Abstract

Landmark Papers in Allergy is a definitive collection of over 90 papers charting key discoveries in relation to allergy and the development of treatment and care for allergic disorders. Commentaries from leading international experts provide reflections on the historical importance and current relevance of each contribution.

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Feb 2013

Print ISBN-13:: 9780199651559

Published online:: Feb 2013

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780199651559.001.0001

Authors

Aziz Sheikh, editor Professor of Primary Care Research and Development and Director of Research, Allergy and Respiratory Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, UK

Thomas Platts-Mills, editor Asthma and Allergic Diseases Center, University of Virginia, USA

Allison Worth, editor Senior Research Fellow, Allergy and Respiratory Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, UK

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Front Matter
Section I 1800–1899
- Chapter 1 Did Bostock discover allergic rhinitis?Jean Bousquet and Pascal Demoly
- Chapter 2 Early insights into the characteristics of asthmaGailen D Marshall Jr
- Chapter 3 Identifying asthma triggersGailen D Marshall Jr
- Chapter 4 Innovative experiments which helped to unravel the aetiological basis of hay feverAziz Sheikh
- Chapter 5 Could two very different conditions share a similar pathophysiology?Brian Hurwitz
Section II 1900–1949
- Chapter 6 What’s in a name? First use of the term ‘allergy’A Barry Kay
- Chapter 7 An innovative treatment for food allergyGideon Lack
- Chapter 8 Laying the foundation for specific immunotherapyGlenis Scadding
- Chapter 9 Celebrating the case study: Schloss’ description of atopic dermatitisTorsten Zuberbier
- Chapter 10 Richet’s Nobel LecturePhil Lieberman
- Chapter 11 A serendipitous discoveryMadeleine Ennis
- Chapter 12 Cooke’s early insights into the potentially curative role of immunotherapy for hay feverAnthony J Frew and Helen E Smith
- Chapter 13 Does eczema have an allergic aetiology?Michael Ardern-Jones
- Chapter 14. . . and what about angioedema and urticaria?Michael Ardern-Jones
- Chapter 15 Prausnitz, Küstner, and the first diagnostic test for allergyJonathan Brostoff and A William Frankland
- Chapter 16 Introducing atopyHarold S Nelson
- Chapter 17 Ephedra—laying the foundations for modern autonomic pharmacologyMunir Pirmohamed
- Chapter 18 First attempts to unravel the relationship between diet and allergyS Hasan Arshad
- Chapter 19 Demonstrating serological changes induced by ragweed extractN Franklin Adkinson Jr
- Chapter 20 Bovet’s Nobel Prize-winning discovery of antihistaminesMartin K Church and Marcus Maurer
- Chapter 21 Identification of slow-reacting substanceSven-Erik Dahlén
- Chapter 22 Oral allergy syndromeVictoria Cardona and Ignacio J Ansotegui
Section III 1950–1999
- Chapter 23 In praise of famous men: early cortisone studiesAndrew Bush
- Chapter 24 The relationship between mast cells and histamineMichael A Kaliner
- Chapter 25 What goes round comes around: developing allergen immunotherapyStephen R Durham
- Chapter 26 Burnet, clonal selection theory, and acquired immunological toleranceSarah EM Howie
- Chapter 27 Slow-reacting substance of anaphylaxisMarc Peters-Golden
- Chapter 28 Loveless and wasp-venom immunotherapyAnthony Dubois
- Chapter 29 Developing an understanding of mast cell biologyStephen I Wasserman
- Chapter 30 Disodium cromoglycate for allergic asthmaAlan Edwards
- Chapter 31 Ancient Egyptian soup for treating asthma: Cox and IntalAnant Parekh
- Chapter 32 RAST: Iconic test for allergic sensitizationShuaib Nasser
- Chapter 33 The discovery of IgESami L Bahna
- Chapter 34 Penicillin allergy: a model for practical clinical translational scienceLanny J Rosenwasser
- Chapter 35 Unravelling the relationship between Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and asthmaAngela Simpson
- Chapter 36 The Gell–Coombs classificationWilliam W Busse
- Chapter 37 The dawn of molecular allergologyHannah Gould
- Chapter 38 Immunotherapy can change the natural history of respiratory allergyG Walter Canonica
- Chapter 39 Anatomy of the asthmatic bronchiPaul M O’Byrne
- Chapter 40 Identifying a novel cause of occupational allergyPaul Cullinan and Anthony Newman Taylor
- Chapter 41 Delayed hypersensitivity to pollen allergensTom Platts-Mills
- Chapter 42 Inhaled beclomethasone dipropionate: stepping-up asthma careAziz Sheikh
- Chapter 43 Challenging notions of the ‘atopic personality’Thomas Ruzicka and Andreas Wollenberg
- Chapter 44 Establishing and investigating the relationship between food allergy and asthmaGraham Roberts
- Chapter 45 The histamine-inhalational testBruce R Thompson and Robyn E O’Hehir
- Chapter 46 Allergic reactions to colloid infusions—another chapter in the colloid debateJasmeet Soar
- Chapter 47 Total and specific IgE and allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosisPaul A Greenberger
- Chapter 48 Immunotherapy for venom allergy comes of ageRichard F Lockey
- Chapter 49 Extending the evidence for immunotherapy to the management of children with house-dust-mite-triggered asthmaRoy Gerth van Wijk
- Chapter 50 Insights from Xhosa children into environmental risk factors for the development of asthmaPeter Burney
- Chapter 51 Viral infection, allergic sensitization, and asthmaJürgen Schwarze
- Chapter 52 Immune responses in atopic eczemaJohannes Ring and Ulf Darsow
- Chapter 53 Understanding the relationship between atopic sensitization and airway hyper-responsiveness in asthmaTodor A Popov
- Chapter 54 Key insights into the relationship between food allergy and atopic dermatitisAlessandro Fiocchi
- Chapter 55 From slow-reacting substance of anaphylaxis to anti-leukotrienesK Frank Austen
- Chapter 56 Once more unto the breach: the role of the damaged bronchial epithelium in asthmaKarl J Staples and Ratko Djukanovi´c
- Chapter 57 Management of anaphylactic shockSimon GA Brown
- Chapter 58 The hygiene hypothesisGraham Devereux
- Chapter 59 In search of the elixir for childhood allergy and asthma preventionDiane R Gold
- Chapter 60 A new way of considering ‘quality of life’Allison Worth
- Chapter 61 Food allergy and anaphylaxisScott H Sicherer
- Chapter 62 Allergen avoidance: the Isle of Wight studySandra Kuiper and Constant P van Schayck
- Chapter 63 Introducing sputum countsParameswaran Nair
- Chapter 64 Atopic asthma is a TH2-cell-mediated diseaseDavid Ahern
- Chapter 65 Investigating the impact of hay fever on educational performanceSamantha M Walker
- Chapter 66 Findings from an early peanut immunotherapy trialTomohiro Utsunomiya and Motohiro Ebisawa
- Chapter 67 Auto-immune mechanisms in chronic urticariaYoung Min Ye and Hae-Sim Park
- Chapter 68 Air pollution, mortality, and the need for public health policyFrank J Kelly
- Chapter 69 The geography of asthma and atopy: after the Berlin wall came downSeif Shaheen
- Chapter 70 The role of animal allergens in allergic diseaseJudith A Woodfolk
- Chapter 71 The natural history of wheezing: the Tucson cohortM Innes Asher and Julian R Vyas
- Chapter 72 Measuring food-specific IgE valuesStacy J Chin and A Wesley Burks
- Chapter 73 Tuberculosis exposure and atopyMary F Linehan
- Chapter 74 The inner-city home environment and asthmaJames Friedlander and Wanda Phipatanakul
- Chapter 75 Mapping the burden of allergic disease in childhood: ISAACCarsten Flohr
- Chapter 76 The relationship between obesity and asthmaDavid A Beuther
- Chapter 77 The emergence of monoclonal antibodiesMichael Daines and Wayne J Morgan
- Chapter 78 The renaissance in allergen immunotherapyJohn Warner
- Chapter 79 Pet exposure in early life and the development of allergy and asthmaSomnath Mukhopadhyay
Section IV 2000–2012
- Chapter 80 Predicting the development of childhood asthmaDennis R Ownby
- Chapter 81 Role of eosinophils in asthmaAndrew J Wardlaw
- Chapter 82 Learning from anaphylaxis fatalitiesSimon GA Brown
- Chapter 83 Peanut allergy and quality of lifeAudrey DunnGalvin
- Chapter 84 The Janus face of endotoxin: for good and bad?Erika von Mutius
- Chapter 85 Testing the ‘hygiene hypothesis’: probiotics for the primary prevention of atopic eczemaCarlos A Camargo Jr
- Chapter 86 The impact of food allergy on health-related quality of lifeAntonella Muraro
- Chapter 87 Does idiopathic eosinophilic esophagitis have an allergic aetiology?Stephan C Bischoff
- Chapter 88 Dawn of the genomic age for asthmaIan M Adcock
- Chapter 89 Endotoxins, allergy, and toleranceMalcolm R Sears
- Chapter 90 Inherited skin-barrier defects and risk of developing ‘atopic’ eczemaWilliam Cookson
- Chapter 91 Anti-IgE: biologicals reach the inner citiesUlrich Wahn
Section V Conclusions
- Chapter 92 From the 18th to the 21st century, and beyond . . .Tom Platts-Mills, Allison Worth, and Aziz Sheikh
End Matter
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