Rossiianov, Kirill (Author)
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 23
Pages: 213--229
Edition Details: Volume title: “Intelligentsia Science Inside and Outside Russia”
Language: English
This essay argues that the idea of race had a profound, yet unacknowledged, impact on Elie Metchnikov's research on immunity. Making the phagocytes, the most primitive cells of the body, responsible for the organism's integrity, Metchnikov attempted to reconcile the cultural idea of primitivity as a threat with the notion of the body as capable of self-defense and self-organization. The vision of phagocytes as being both the agents of an organism's harmony and its potential enemies reflected the complications that the ideas of race and racial primitivity met in Russian intellectual contexts.
...MoreDescription “Argues that the idea of race had a profound ... impact on Elie Metchnikov's research on immunity [as he] attempted to reconcile the cultural idea of primitivity as a threat with the notion of the body as capable of self-defense and self-organization.” (from the abstract)
Article Gordin, Michael D.; Hall, Karl (2008) Introduction. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 1).
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