Moulin, Anne Marie (Editor)
Cambrosio, Alberto (Editor)
Elsevier
Physical Details: 303 pp., illus., figs., tables, indexes
Language: English
Description Based on papers presented at “Immunology: Historical Issues and Contemporary Debates”, June 4-6, 1998, Saint-Julien-en-Beaujolais, France. Contents: Anne-Marie Moulin; Alberto Cambrosio: Introduction. Michael Potter: Myeloma porteins and antibodies, Leslie B. Brent: Tolerance revisited. Melvin Cohn: Logic of the Self-Nonself distinction. Kenneth F. Schaffner: Assisting immunologists to examine the philosophical foundations and implications of the new theories of tolerance. Patrick Triadon: The immunological approach to classification of leukemias. Arthur M. Silverstein: Receptor immunology: The origins of Paul Ehrlich's guiding principle. Eileen Crist; Alfred I. Tauber: The phagocyte, the antibody, and agency in immunity: Contending turn of the century approaches. Angela N. H. Creager: From blood fractions to antibody structure: Gamma globulin research growing out of World War II. Mark Jackson: Between skepticism and wild enthusiasm: The chequered history of allergen immunotherapy in Britain. Jennifer Stanton: Vaccine viability and the shifting fortunes of Hepatitis B immunization. Ed Cohen: Figuring immunity: Towards the genealogy of a metaphor. Philippe Menut: The Lübeck catastrophe and its consequences for anti-tuberculosis BCG vaccination. Dominque Frommel: Immunology in developing countries: A distorted image. Daniel Jacob: Contemporary and prototypic figures of immunology in the medical press. Anne-Marie Moulin: Multiple Splendor. The one and many versions of the immune system. Alfred I. Tauber. Tales of neglected (or phaned) historiographies. Peter Keating: Georges Canguilhem's “On the normal and the pathological”: A restatement and a commentary. Alberto Cambrosio: On the coexistence of multiple time frames in historical accounts of immunology. Thomas Söderqvist: Immunology à la Plutarch--biographies of immunologists as an ethical genre.
Review Lindenmann, Jean (2002) Review of "Singular Selves: Historical Issues and Contemporary Debates in Immunology". Gesnerus.
Review Mazumdar, Pauline M. H. (2004) Review of "Singular Selves: Historical Issues and Contemporary Debates in Immunology". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 486).
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