Article ID: CBB000078031

Helpers and suppressors: On fictional characters in immunology (1997)

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Description On the suppressor cell controversy in the late 20th century. “This article discusses the issue of the production and deconstruction of scientific entities from a particular angle, namely, by capitalizing on the observation that researchers attribute varying degrees of existence to the entities they manipulate and describe.”


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Authors & Contributors
Löwy, Illana
Keating, Peter
Rees, Anthony R.
Zurbrigg, Sheila
Ul'iankina, T. I.
Tauber, Alfred I.
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
Social Studies of Science
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Medical History
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Istoriko-Biologicheskie Issledovaniia
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Routledge India
Lietuvos mokslų akademijos Vrublevskių biblioteka
Wallstein Verlag
Academic Press
Concepts
Immunology
Biographies
Disease and diseases
Medicine
Biology
Public health
People
Burnet, Frank Macfarlane
Ehrlich, Paul
Jerne, Niels Kaj
Whitehead, Alfred North
Pillemer, Louis
Freund, Jules
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
Places
Australia
South Asia
Lithuania
British Isles
Institutions
Institut Pasteur, Paris
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