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Second Edition
By
Arthur Silverstein, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Audience
Immunologists, molecular biologists, hematologists, individuals working in infectious disease
Contents
List of Photos
Foreword: On History and Historians
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
PART ONE: INTELLECTUAL
HISTORY
1. Theories of Acquired Immunity
2. Cellular vs. Humoral Immunity
3. Theories of Antibody Formation
4. The Generation of Diversity:
The Germline/Somatic Mutation Debate
5. The Clonal Selection Theory Challenged: The Immunological Self
6. The Concept of Immunologic
Specificity
7. Specificity Continued
8. Horror Autotoxicus: The Concept of Autoimmunity
9. Allergy and Immunopathology: The "Price"
of Immunity
10. Anti-Antibodies and Anti-Idiotypic Immunoregulation: 1899-1904
11. Transplantation and Immunogenetics
PART TWO: SOCIAL
HISTORY
12. Magic Bullets and Poisoned Arrows: The Uses of Antibodies
13. The Royal Experiment: 1721-22
14. The Languages of Immunologic
Dispute
15. The Search for Cell-Bound Antibodies. On the Influence of Dogma
16. Natural' Antibodies and 'Virgin' Lymphocytes: The Importance
of Context
17. The Dynamics of Conceptual Change in Immunology
18. Immunology in Transition 1951-1972: The Role of International Meetings
and Discipline Leaders
19. The Origin of Subdisciplines: (Ocular Immunology; Pediatric Immunology; Immunophysiology)
20. Immune Hemolysis:
On the Heuristic Value of an Experimental System
21. Darwinism and Immunology: from Metchnikoff to Burnet
22. The End of Immunology?
Appendix A1. The Calendar of Immunologic Progress
Appendix A2. Seminal Discoveries
Appendix A3. Important Books in Immunology, 1892 – 1968
Appendix B. Nobel Prize Highlights in Immunology
Appendix C. Biographical Dictionary
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Hardbound, 0 pages, publication date: JUN-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-370586-0
ISBN-10: 0-12-370586-X
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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