Book ID: CBB000100274

Singular Selves: Historical Issues and Contemporary Debates in Immunology (2001)

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Moulin, Anne Marie (Editor)
Cambrosio, Alberto (Editor)


Elsevier


Publication Date: 2001
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.


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Authors & Contributors
Jefferson, Anneli
Ciurlionis, Jonas
Wolfe, Richard J.
Tauber, Alfred I.
Swiatczak, Bartlomiej
Stegenga, Jacob
Journals
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Social History of Medicine
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Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
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