Within the field of general medicine, the last two decades have seen the curative procedures increasingly supplemented by func- tions that can be summed up under the heading of "e;preventive health care.
This volume deals with the structure and function of molecules that have, during the last decade, turned out to have a central role in immune responses.
The author's principal aim is to win over the patient through the development of the "e;positive"e; aspects of his psychopathology-a concern the significance of which I have also discovered, especially in schizophrenic therapy.
The protection of human health and food and fiber resources against the ravages of pests of many sorts is a continuous struggle by all people in the world.
Das Buch vermittelt psychosomatisches Verst{ndnis f}r dennicht speziell ausgebildeten Arzt ebenso wie die wichtigstenTechniken zur Erkennung und Behandlung psychosomatischerErkrankungen.
In der vorliegenden Schrift wird die Indikation zu den dia gnostischen und therapeutischen Maßnahmen als eine per sönliche Entscheidung des behandelnden Arztes dargestellt: auf grund seiner Erfahrung und auf grund des Eindrucks, den er von der Persönlichkeit des vor ihm liegenden Patien ten gewinnt, entscheidet er nach bestem Wissen und Gewis sen über sein Handeln.
All but one* of the following articles represent comprehensive reports on a workshop held between 7 and 9 May 1981 at the Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University of Wfuzburg, Federal Republic of Germany.
Several discoveries are noteworthy for allowing us to probe the recesses of the virus- infected cell and to search for cryptic viral genomes which might provide clues in our studies of cancer etiology or developmental biology.
It is with great pleasure and ,much interest that I accepted to write the foreword to this book by Paul Doury, Yves Dirheimer, and Serge Pattin on the subject of "e;algodystrophy.
The discovery of specifically acquired immunity which followed the major contributions of Louis Pasteur completely over-shadowed the first studies of the host's natural resistance.
From the first to the third of August, 1980, an international sym- posium entitled "e;New Trends in Allergy"e; was held in Munich, sponsored by the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, in cooperation with the German Society for Allergy and Immunity Research and the European Society for Dermatological Research.
In view of the continuing preoccupation of all industrialized countries with the rising share of national resources devoted to health care, it is valuable to compare the fmanc- ing and breakdown of health care expenditure on an international basis.
