A general practitioner-teacher and a university professor have chosen to revitalize the theoretical teaching of immunology by grounding it in clinical experience. While modern immunology, like endocrinology and neuroscience, is largely a discipline of intercellular communication, this manual owes much of its quality to the ongoing interaction between the two authors, who worked to select the essential elements and firmly ground them in everyday practice. Another characteristic of this work is its combination of rigor and simplicity. Too many books, and especially too many articles, discourage physicians with their abundance of information and poor integration. This is not the case here, as the didactic presentation is based on the indisputable achievements of modern immunology, selected for their explanatory value and harmoniously assembled whenever the current state of knowledge allows. The Department of General Medicine at the Paris-Sud Faculty of Medicine was established around Antoine Bédère Hospital more than twenty years ago, at the same time as INSERM Unit 131 and just a few years after the creation of the hospital's Internal Medicine department. This network and the bonds of friendship among its members remain strong and fruitful. This book is further evidence of that.
