Warwick Anderson’s co-authored book (with Ian R. Mackay), Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity (Johns Hopkins, 2014) book chronicles the shifting scientific understanding of the causes of autoimmune disease, a group of illnesses affecting 5 to 10 per cent of the population that includes multiple sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes. Reviewed in Nature and the Lancet, Intolerant Bodies has sold almost 3000 copies in three months and is going into its third printing. The book was officially launched last week by high-profile researchers Sir Gustav Nossal, AC, and Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty, AC, at a special event at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne.