Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Part I Prologue 1 Perspectives of the Danger/Injury Model of Immunology as Applied to Antigen-Related Human Disorders -- Part II Infections 2 Infectious Agents: From the Red Queen Paradigm to Some of Their Genuine Traits -- 3 Virulence of Pathogens and the Counteracting Responses of the Host -- 4 The DAMP-Driven Host Immune Defense Program Against Pathogens -- 5 The Pathogenetic Role of DAMPs in Severe Infectious Diseases -- Part III Autoimmunity 6 Basic Trajectories in Autoimmunity -- 7 DAMPs in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases -- 8 DAMPs in Organ-Specific Autoimmune Diseases -- Part IV Transplants and Cancer 9 The Undesirable and DesirableFunctions of DAMPs in Transplant and Tumor Rejection -- Part V Epilogue 10 Approaching the DAMPome: Evolution in Medicine?