?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Immune+cognition%2C+social+justice+and+asthma%3A+structured+stress+and+the+developing+immune+system&rft.creator=Wallace%2C+Rodrick&rft.creator=Fullilove%2C+Mindy&rft.creator=Wallace%2C+Deborah&rft.subject=Theoretical+Biology&rft.description=We+explore+the+implications+of+IR+Cohen's+work+on+immune%0Acognition+for+understanding+rising+rates+of+asthma+morbidity%0Aand+mortality+in+the+US.++Immune+cognition+is+conjoined+with%0Acentral+nervous+system+cognition%2C+and+with+the+cognitive%0Afunction+of+the+embedding+sociocultural+networks+by+which%0Aindividuals+are+acculturated+and+through+which+they+work+with+others+to+meet+challenges+of+threat+and+opportunity.%0AUsing+a+mathematical+model%2C+we+find+that+externally-%0Aimposed+patterns+of+'structured+stress'+can%2C+through+their%0Aeffect+on+a+child's+socioculture%2C+become+synergistic+with%0Athe+development+of+immune+cognition%2C+triggering+the+persistence+of+an+atopic+Th2+phenotype%2C+a+necessary+precursor+to+asthma+and+other+immune+disease.++Reversal+of+the+rising+tide+of+asthma+and+related+chronic+diseases+in+the+US+thus+seems+unlikely+without+a+21st+Century+version+of+the+earlier+Great+Urban+Reforms+which+ended+the+scourge+of+infectious+diseases.&rft.date=2001-08&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1731%2F3%2Fasthma1.pdf&rft.identifier=++Wallace%2C+Rodrick+and+Fullilove%2C+Mindy+and+Wallace%2C+Deborah++(2001)+Immune+cognition%2C+social+justice+and+asthma%3A+structured+stress+and+the+developing+immune+system.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1731%2F