From the Curriculum Director
Many wonderful books come our way for review as potential textbooks. Often they include excellent information but too much material already found elsewhere in our programs. Or perhaps the content is too broad for a specific course.
Or maybe the words, though beautiful, refuse to confine themselves to the specific topic at hand.
I currently have three fine books about immunity that will not become textbooks. Two of them — Boosting Immunity: Creating Wellness Naturally, by Len Saputo, M.D. and Nancy Faass, M.S.W., M.P.H., and The Immune Advantage, by Ellen Mazo and the editors of Prevention Health Books with Keith Berndtson, M.D. — provide a brief explanation of how the immune system works and offer many lifestyle strategies for keeping it tuned up.
The third book, Faith, Madness, and Spontaneous Human Combustion, by Gerald N. Callahan, Ph.D., is a series of contemplative essays in which the author, himself an immunologist, compares the workings of the immune system to many aspects of daily life. For example, his grandmother, and her “penchant for saving things” in mason jars is like the immune system, which uses the lymph nodes to collect “the stuff that falls through cracks in our skin.” There is an art to helping people become healthier, and writers who look with an artist’s gaze on all facets of life provide a perspective that we can never find in textbooks.
All three books would make excellent supplemental reading for anyone interested in the immune system and how to enhance it.
Krista Leamon
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