Immunity: The Evolution of an Idea

ISBN-13: 9780190914196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 328 str.

Alfred I. Tauber

Recenzje

Drawing on extensive knowledge of historical, philosophical and scientific literature, [the book] abolishes the simplistic, militaristic vision of the immune system and establishes a new paradigm for how we think about our interactions with the microbial world. This fascinating book will certainly become an important reference point for generations of researchers and theoreticians interested in immunology fundamentals.

O autorze

Alfred I. Tauber is Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus and Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine, Emeritus at Boston University, where he served as Director of the Center for Philosophy and History of Science from 1993 to 2010. Author of The Immune Self (Cambridge 1994) and co-author of Metchnikoff and the Origins of Immunology (Oxford 1991) and the Generation of Diversity (Harvard 1997), he has also published extensively in ethics and science studies.