Customer Reviews

Basic Immunology, Updated Edition 2006-2007: with STUDENT CONSULT Access

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My required reading text for Immunology was the Goldsby Immunology. After exhausting myself digging through sentences like "Protein A, with seven subunits designated 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, with respective molecular weights of 43, 32, 75, 12, 65, 12, and 76, binds inside a 14-Angstrom cleft in Protein B, proved by Researchers Smith and Jones in 1986 using wing-dangled gel electrophoresis..." I switched to this text, which is more like "Protein A binds to Protein B."
This text would be inappropriate for a graduate student studying immunology, but for a medical student who just wants to do well on the test and Boards, this is fantastic. Although it is brief, it covers everything from First Aid in good detail, emphasizes clinically relevant material, and glosses over clinically irrelevant parts. The diagrams do a good job of summarizing the text and are easy to follow. Highly recommend. It didn't have a section on how immunology-based lab techniques are carried out, but then, I'd rather poke my eyes out than ever, ever have anything to do with running a Western blot.

This is an excellent immunology text that is recommended by a top 3 medical school. Many schools have this text and Janeway's text ranked equally and they use diagrams from both.

I bought this book as a required text for my med school immunology block. My firs time using the book. I like the images and captions. I also like the fact that key terms are not only defined at the back of the book but a quick summary of how these terms apply within the text is given. What I dislike about the book is the fact that topics are not well organized; they're scattered all over the book. I only used it for reference and for the cartoons/images.

This book is easy to understand and the chapters are not dreadfully long. The first chapter gives you an overview of the parts of the immune system and each chapter thereafter explains those parts in more detail one by one. This is a great supplement to my professors notes and probably one of the cheapest books I've ever purchased. Great deal!

I bought this book and read it for several times so far. the book is badly organized and very wordy. the illustrations are overdone. but the content seem right for med students.

This is a required book for my first year of med school and had proved very informative for my specific class. I use it mostly as reference at this point but may prove to use it more in the future.

Purchased this book for school. It is well written, easy to understand and prepared me for tests. I would recommend it for anyone needing to study for immunology!

Item was as described, book in good condition and still had student access code intact. Shipped quickly, received within 1 week of date of purchase.