Thread: Immunology Text

I am trying to find the blue spiral immuno book that is coming highly recommended by upper termers. Anyone know the title, where I could find it, or the ISBN number? I am told it is the best book to get for Immuno.

Dr Stanley has many books out there and I want to make sure i get the right one.

The blue book is not available in the bookstore.

I thought the spiral book was useless but the purple book was a keeper?

I've heard differing opinions from my term 2 classmates last term; some liked the blue spiral book and some preferred the purple Problem Based text.

The blue is more pertinent for pre-midterm material (but the final is cumulative) and has questions for practice, some of which are used on the exams.

The purple (Problem-based Immunology) has a more clinical approach though there is a short basic science review each chapter before the clinical cases begin. There are some questions here too and some questions in the 2 texts are the same.

I think (mostly) everything in the blue spiral text is included in the course's "Summary Notes" handed out before each section but of course the text is neatly organized and easier to keep together. FWIW, I used the online presentation slides pre-midterm and used the purple Problem-based Immunology text post-midterm and did well but like I said everybody seems to have a different opinion.

Kongakut,
That link you gave me doen't lead to the book I think I need. I asked a friend of mine who just finished 2nd term and she said it was useless. The blue spiral book I am looking for is different I think. Anyone who just finished 2nd term have any idea what the book is called?

that should be the only blue spiral book. I'm surprised that it was on amazon... only book you *need* is that purple book

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i found the white spiral book very helful when i did immuno 3 yrs ago. that's all i studied and did very well in her class. i agree though she has no clue about teaching. i would suspect since she teaches it 2x a yr for 15yrs she would know by now!

canman