Metchnikoff and the origins of immunology :: from metaphor to theory /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Tauber, Alfred I.
Weitere Verfasser: Chernyak, Leon
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
Schriftenreihe:Monographs on the history and philosophy of biology.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xviii, 247 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:142373470X
9781423734703
019534510X
9780195345100
9780195064476
019506447X

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