History of allergy / volume editors Karl-Christian Bergmann, Johannes Ring.

Basel : S. Karger, [2014]

xx, 425 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 28 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminaries -- History of allergy in antiquity -- History of allergy in the middle ages and renaissance -- Landmarks in allergy during the 19th century -- Milestones in the 20th century -- Terminology of allergic phenomena -- Anaphylaxis -- Allergic rhinitis -- Asthma -- Atopic dermatitis/atopic eczema -- Allergic contact dermatitis -- Urticaria and angioedema -- Allergy and the eye -- History of food allergy -- Drug hypersensitivity -- Aspirin hypersensitivity -- Bradykinin-mediated diseases -- Mechanisms of allergy: important discoveries -- The discovery of immunoglobulin E and its role in allergy -- T cell subpopulations -- Mast cell research -- Basophils: historical reflections and perspectives -- Eosinophils -- The bradykinin-forming cascade: a historical perspective -- Histamine receptors and antihistamines: from discovery to clinical applications -- Detection of environmental influences and allergens -- Pollen and pollinosis -- Mites and allergy -- Mammalian airborne allergens -- The latex story -- Peanut allergens -- Environmental pollution and allergy: historical aspects -- Farmers and their environment: protective influences of the farming environment against the development of allergies -- Progress in allergy management -- History of catecholamine research -- Antihistamines -- Glucocorticoids -- Chromones -- Characterization and standardization of allergen extracts -- Allergen-specific immunotherapy -- Pioneers of allergy: personal reflections -- K. Frank Austen -- John Bienenstock -- Kurt Blaser -- Alain de Weck (1928-2013) -- Alfred William Frankland -- Oscar L. Frick -- Kimishige Ishizaka -- Lothar Jäger -- Terumasa Miyamoto -- Harry Morrow Brown (1917-2013) -- Albert K. Oehling -- Heimo Reulecke -- Václav Špičák -- Allergy societies and collections -- AAAAI -- APAAACI -- CIA -- EAACI -- JSA -- SLAAI -- WAO -- AAAAI archives -- The Ilya Mechnikov Collection in Riga -- Online supplementary material -- Movie 1: Anaphylaxie et allergie -- Movie 2: World allergy: the disease of civilization.