![]() ![]() ![]() Years ago, back in the late 80s and through most of the 90s, my work as a lawyer included medical issues pertaining to HIV, so I was familiar with B cells, T-helper cells, and T-killer cells but the medical research has expanded greatly in the current century. For some reason (and perhaps I'm just guilty of reading it a little too quickly), the technical medical chapters seemed a bit difficult for me. Somehow, I just managed to mislay An Elegant Defense and just found it a week ago while doing some household clean-up and inventorying of my library. It's the only time I've been seriously delinquent in reviewing an ER book, and it's particularly embarrassing in this case considering that I had requested this book because of my own ongoing experience with prostate cancer. ![]() This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.Three years late with my review, I'm horribly embarrassed to say. ![]()
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