Otis, Laura (Author)
Johns Hopkins University Press
Physical Details: x + 210 pp.; notes; bibl.; index
Description Contents: 1. Virchow and Koch: The cell and the self in the age of miasmas and microbes. 2. S. Weir Mitchell: Identity as resistance. 3. Santiago Ramón y Cajal: The neuron and the net. 4. Arthur Conan Doyle: An imperial immune system. 5. Arthur Schnizler: The open self. Thomas Mann: The tigers of wrath and the origin of cholera. Conclusion: Identity in the age of (AIDS.)
Review Schickore, J. (2000) Review of "Membranes: Metaphors of invasion in 19th-century literature, science, and politics". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 603).
Review Wiltse, E. (2001) Review of "Membranes: Metaphors of invasion in 19th-century literature, science, and politics". Victorian Studies (p. 328).
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