An Immunological Explosion?
An Immunological Explosion?
This chapter discusses how the schism between food allergists and orthodox allergists was finally made complete by the discovery of immunoglobulin E (IgE) in 1966. For academic immunologists and orthodox allergists, IgE was and is an immunological marker for allergic reactions, proving to them that much of what food allergists had claimed was food allergy was in fact either intolerance or psychosomatic. Although IgE ushered in a new era of scientific respectability for orthodox allergists, it pushed many food allergists to the fringes of medical practice. IgE also made it possible for unscrupulous allergists to market dubious allergy tests, which marginalized food allergists and clinical ecologists even farther.
Keywords: food allergy, allergies, food allergists, orthodox allergists, immunoglobulin E, IgE
Columbia Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
