Janeway's Immunobiology

by Kenneth M. Murphy

Janeway's Immunobiology is a textbook for students studying immunology at the undergraduate, graduate, and medical school levels. As an introductory text, all students will appreciate the book's clear writing and informative illustrations, and advanced students and working immunologists will appreciate its comprehensive scope and depth. Janeway's Immunobiology presents immunology from a consistent point of view throughout—that of the host’s interaction with an environment full of microbes and pathogens. The Ninth Edition has been thoroughly revised bringing the content up-to-date with important developments in the field, especially in the topic of innate immunity.

Genres: Textbooks, Science, Biology, Nonfiction, Medicine, Reference, Academic

928 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 22, 2010

Reviews

[Wes Wilson · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are three approaches to Immunology. There is the rightway, the wrongway, and the Janeway. You need this book.

[Meili Aiello · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was married to this book for about a semester. I cannot wait for the next edition to come out and realize everything I had learned has been recently disproved.

[Zemmiphobe · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a really accessible text for immunobiology. I saw some complaints about the subject matter being really all over the place and things not being explained, but I think this is dependent on what your goal is with this book. If you are looking for an immuno textbook to self-teach or leisure read (why would you do that?), this is not that book. One thing about the subject matter is that it is a complicated web of interactions that do not progress in a very orderly fashion. So subsequently, texts explaining it also do not progress in very orderly fashions.

The first chapter of this book gives a very broad overview without much in-detail explanations. Its like one of those maps you see sketched on the inside cover of a fantasy novel. It means nothing to you before you've read more of the text, its there to refer back to later. I found this to be quite helpful because it adds a bit of repetition and because it gives a nice condensed overview that you can then read over when you are studying and see how much of the additional information not included in the overview you remember.

Overall, I recommend it as a good immuno text but I would suggest to be a bit flexible in the order in which you read the chapters and to supplement the text with a course of some kind. Additionally, I have found that many immuno texts focus a lot on patient presentation and particular known types of infection. Perhaps this is what peple disappointed with the book were looking for? This is a biology book, so the focus is less on immunomedicine and pathology and more on immunobiology (like the title says).

[Paul Kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

Absolutely fascinating subject matter, and Charles Janeway somehow managed to condense the absolute beautiful chaos of the human immune system into one fucking textbook. Bravo to the man, but the class surrounding has me feeling like Sally Hardesty at the end of Texas Chainsaw Massacre - laughing crazily, terrified for my life, and covered in blood.

[Laura · Rating 1 out of 5]

One of the most dense and difficult to read biology textbooks I have ever *attempted* to read. Like Lodish's Molecular Cell Biology, this book uses SENTENCES AS TITLES that contain INFORMATION, almost as if it was written in a way that is purposefully and intentionally difficult to understand. The writing style itself is extremely hard to follow and full of jargon that is not explained properly. The only good thing I can say about this book is that it's color scheme is much more pleasing than most biology books and its diagrams look less meme-y. I would rather use it to make collages than I would read it.

[Bilge B · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good one but the subject is a bit all over the place. Can get confuseing sometimes.

[Daniel Pap · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thanks for ruining my life

[Mike · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a general reader (retired software specialist who did a natural sciences degree in the 1970s) I found this hard going, and only completed the first third or so of the book, but I think that is mostly just the nature of the subject matter, and not the fault of the authors. I was forcefully reminded that the machinery produced by natural selection does not necessarily have a nice, tidy, rational "design", but is usually just barely good enough to do its job. That said, some aspects of the immune system really blew my mind with their elegance - for example the mechanisms for diversification of the antibody repertoire.

[Roberto Galindo · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't know a book that better combines language and illustrations as good as this one, a masterpiece.

[Arianna Celena Estrada · Rating 3 out of 5]

ow my brain

[Sarah Aubrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative!

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

You never truly appreciate how difficult it is to write coherently about Immunology until you take an Immunology class and become desperately dependent on a textbook to give you some semblance of comprehension on the subject. What was once a confounding jumble of randomly assorted numbers and letters suddenly becomes clear. Because this is such a fast-paced field, however, there were a few figures that are now inaccurate. But despite this, it remains the quintessential text for Immunobiology.

[Jason Yang · Rating 5 out of 5]

Janeway's Immunobiology was an extremely well-written, comprehensive and tractable immunology textbook. I am not an immunologist by training and I picked up this text so I could teach myself some immunology in my spare time. I though the text and figures were very clearly presented and I have a nice general grasp of innate and adaptive adaptive responses. I especially appreciated all the cross-referencing between chapters. Highly recommended!

[Ndidi Njoku · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is very confusing. I had to read the first few chapters at least three times to fully understand what was happening. The information is all over the place. Concepts aren't explained well. Overall, it's poorly written but I like the material. If you're using it as a textbook, I recommend having another source to supplement it.

[Ari Robinson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was my assigned text book for my immunology class and it was actually a very well written text! It actually kept my attention in the way that most text books do not anymore. The best thing is the figures are all incredibly done, and it’s so nice that they use the same format all the way through. It makes keeping track of all of the molecules and cells straight so much easier!

[MindOverMatter · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is suited for absolute beginners (like I am) and goes into sufficient depth so that I could find a few quite detailed things I wanted to understand better. I enjoyed it and found myself learning many interesting new things beyond what I was after. It is a rather easy and quick read despite it being a University textbook.

[Cathy Wood · Rating 3 out of 5]

For Immunology course

[Silky · Rating 3 out of 5]

basically scanned through...