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By
Arthur Silverstein, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
Description
This is a professional-level intellectual history of the development of immunology from about 1720 to about 1970. Beginning with the work
and insights of the early immunologists in the 18th century, Silverstein traces the development of the major ideas which have formed
immunology down to the maturation of the discipline in the decade following the Second World War. Emphasis is placed on the philosophic
and sociologic climate of the scientific milieu in which immunology has developed, providing a background to the broad culture of the
discipline.
Audience
All immunologists; historians of medicine; historians of science and sociologists of science.
Contents
Preface. On History and Historians. Theories of Acquired Immunity. The Royal Experiment on Immunity: 1721-1722. Cellular versus Humoral
Immunity: Determinants and Consequences of an Epic Nineteenth-Century Battle. Theories of Antibody Formation. The Concept of Immunologic
Specificity. Immunologic Specificity, Continued. Horror Autotoxicus: The Concept of Autoimmunity. The Donath-Landsteiner Autoantibody:
The Incommensurable Languages of Immunological Dispute. Allergy and Immunopathology: The Price of Immunity. Anti-antibodies and Anti-idiotype
Immunoregulation: 1899-1904. Transplantation and Immunogenetics. Magic Bullets and Poisoned Arrows: The Uses of Antibody. Appendix A:
The Calendar of Immunologic Progress. Appendix B: Nobel Prize Highlights in Immunology. Appendix C: Biographical Dictionary. Glossary.
Name Index. Subject Index.
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 422 pages, publication date: APR-1989
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-643770-6
ISBN-10: 0-12-643770-X
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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