Alfred I. Tauber

The Immune Self

Theory or Metaphor?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A critical study of immunology from its origins at the end of the nineteenth century to its contemporary formulation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 597g
• ISBN-13: 9780521574433
• ISBN-10: 0521574439
• Artikelnr.: 21773731

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The phagocytosis theory
2. The triumph of immunology
3. The immune self declared
4. From theory to metaphor
5. Immunology gropes for its theory
6. The self and the phenomenological attitude
7. The self as organism: a philosophical consideration
8. The search for identity
Notes
Index.