The Immune Self - Theory or Metaphor?

The Immune Self is the first extended philosophical critique of immunology.

List of contents

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.

Summary

The Immune Self is a critical study of immunology from its origins at the end of the nineteenth century to its contemporary formulation. The book offers the first extended philosophical critique of immunology, in which the function of the term 'self' that underlies the structure of current immune theory is analysed.

Product details

• Authors: Wayne Ed Myers, Wayne Ed. Myers, Alfred I. Tauber, Tauber Alfred I.
• Assisted by: Michael Ruse (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.1994
• EAN: 9780521461887
• ISBN: 978-0-521-46188-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 660 g
• Illustrations: 2 b/w illus., Raster, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Biology, life sciences