Provides information about autoimmune disorders, discussing what they are, what causes them, diagnosis, treatment, how people live with them, and related research.
This book discusses autoimmune diseases, a family of related diseases characterized by an immune system that turns on itself, including why immune systems become dysfunctional, controversies over the rise in autoimmune diseases, and personal narratives from people living with autoimmune diseases.
The author relates what she underwent during a month-long hospital stay during which she was diagnosed with encephalitis and discusses how the autoimmune disease affected her mental stability and her hospitalization influenced her life and family.
