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Allergy as Metaphor

By Mark Jackson By the dawn of the twenty-first century, allergy had become a rich cultural resource for expressing and exchanging social anxieties about the material and ideological determinants and consequences of environmental degradation, ecological imbalance and global disharmony. Allergy had also emerged as a convenient vehicle for exposing and explaining diverse modern forms of [...]

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Food Allergies: Taking the Long View

By Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn, MD The food allergy epidemic is now big enough and public enough that we have to come to grips with what it means for the future of American society, and indeed for the rest of the industrialized world, where atopic diseases seem to go hand in hand with “progress.” While we are [...]

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