Metchnikoff and the origins of immunology : from metaphor to theory / Alfred I. Tauber, Leon Chernyak.

By:

Tauber, Alfred I

Contributor(s):

Chernyak, Leon

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Monographs on the history and philosophy of biologyPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 247 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

142373470X
9781423734703
019534510X
9780195345100
9780195064476
019506447X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Metchnikoff and the origins of immunology.DDC classification:

591.2/9/092 B 20

LOC classification:

QR180.72.M48 T38 1991eb

NLM classification:

WZ 100

Other classification:

42.31

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Contents:

Foreword / Scott Gilbert -- Metchnikoff's Early Embryology -- Metchnikoff's Embryological Studies after 1872 -- The Problem of Evolution in Metchnikoff's Works -- Metchnikoff's Emerging Concept of Inflammation -- The Phagocytosis Theory and Its Reception -- The Phagocyte Eclipsed -- Epilogue: From Metaphor to Theory -- Morphologists versus Darwinians, the Modern Debate -- Current Views of Phagocyte Function.

Summary: This fascinating intellectual history is the first critical study of the work of Elie Metchnikoff, the founding father of modern immunology. Metchnikoff authored and championed the theory that phagocytic cells actively defend the host body against pathogens and diseased cells. His program developed from comparative embryological studies that sought to establish genealogical relations between species at the dawn of the Darwinian revolution. In this scientific biography, Tauber and Chernyak explore ore Metchnikoff's development as an embryologist, showing how it prepared him to propose his theor.

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This fascinating intellectual history is the first critical study of the work of Elie Metchnikoff, the founding father of modern immunology. Metchnikoff authored and championed the theory that phagocytic cells actively defend the host body against pathogens and diseased cells. His program developed from comparative embryological studies that sought to establish genealogical relations between species at the dawn of the Darwinian revolution. In this scientific biography, Tauber and Chernyak explore ore Metchnikoff's development as an embryologist, showing how it prepared him to propose his theor.

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