Taylor Editors Salivary Bioscience Foundations of Interdisciplinary Saliva Research and Applications Salivary Bioscience www. Taylor Editors Salivary Bioscience Foundations of Interdisciplinary Saliva Research and Applications www.com Editors Douglas A. Taylor Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research Bioscience Research University of California at Irvine University of California at Irvine Irvine, CA, USA Irvine, CA, USA Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD, USA ISBN 978-3-030-35783-2 ISBN 978-3-030-35784-9 (eBook) https://doi.1007/978-3-030-35784-9 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed.
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The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland www.com Preface Thousands of investigators worldwide are actively engaged in basic, applied, and clinical research involving salivary bioscience. Our literature search reveals that across the past two decades the number of empirical papers published annually has increased substantially; in 2019 more than 1500 empirical salivary bioscience papers were published.
Investigators engaged in salivary bioscience span many academic disciplines including medicine, public health, psychology, sociology, education, neuroscience, biological science, animal behavior and welfare, infectious disease epidemiology, social neuroscience of human–animal interaction, drugs/drug abuse, social networks, nursing, psychoneuroendocrinology, anthropology, cognitive sci- ence, bioengineering, dentistry, oncology, oral health, and pediatrics. To date, the foundational information in salivary bioscience (i., 25 years of literature) is not easy or efficient to find. It is scattered across many different journals, over at least two decades, and some of the early work has been subsequently shown to be in error. This makes it challenging for new investigators interested in the topic to find the “right” information on their own.
Unfortunately, and to the best of our knowledge, there is no definitive state-of-the-art guide to interdisciplinary salivary bioscience research. Over the years there have been edited volumes from the pro- ceedings of highly specific conferences. Understandably, the nature of these pre- sentations is highly technical and narrow in scope, and the content chapters in those texts are written for an audience of highly trained experts. By contrast, this edited volume is written by leaders in multiple fields and fulfills a demand for a broad understanding of salivary bioscience across a range of disciplines.com Acknowledgements The history of the emergence of interdisciplinary salivary bioscience has been influenced by many mentors, advisors, early adopters and visionaries over many years.
Here we call attention to some of these key individuals for the significant roles they played in the development of the foundation of knowledge that scripted the “big picture”—Daniel Malamud, Lawrence Tabak, Harold Slavkin, John R. Fahey, Barbara Henker, Herbert Weiner, Dirk Hellhammer, Ben Weigand, Margaret Kemeny, Lynn Kozlowski, Elizabeth Susman, Alan Booth, James Dabbs, Jr., Peter Ellison, Lynn Vernon-Feagans, Ann Crouter, Megan Gunnar, Dante Cicchetti, Dan Leri, Clancy Blair, Martha N. Hill, Gayle Page, Deborah Gross, Robert Blum, Janet Dipietro, Tina Chang, Keith Crnic, Cary Savage, Karen Rook, Dele Ogunseitan, and Nancy Guerra.