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      Patient Autonomy and the Ethics of Responsibility

      Alfred I. Tauber

      A philosophical discussion of the doctor-patient relationship that argues for enhanced patient autonomy based on the ethics of physician responsibility and a science of value-based decision making.

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      Confessions of a Medicine Man: An Essay in Popular Philosophy

      Alfred I. Tauber

      Alfred Tauber probes the ethical structure of contemporary late-1990s medicine in an argument accessible to lay readers, healthcare professionals, and ethicists alike.

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      Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher

      Alfred I. Tauber

      Recasting Freud as an inspired humanist and reconceiving psychoanalysis as a form of moral inquiry, this title argues that Freudianism offers a rich approach to self-inquiry, one that reaffirms the…

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      Science and the Quest for Meaning

      Alfred I. Tauber

      In this deeply thoughtful exploration, Alfred Tauber, a practicing scientist and highly regarded philosopher, eloquently traces the history of the philosophy of science, seeking in the end to place science…

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      Requiem for the Ego: Freud and the Origins of Postmodernism

      Alfred I. Tauber

      The attack on psychoanalysis launched by Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein converged on Freud’s construction of the modernist ego, thereby providing the competing notions of subjectivity and agency that characterize postmodernism.

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      Science and the Quest for Reality

      An interdisciplinary anthology that situates contemporary science within its complex philosophical, historical, and sociological contexts. The anthology is divided between, firstly, characterizing science as an intellectual activity and, secondly, defining…

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      Science and the Quest for Reality

      Science and the Quest for Reality is an interdisciplinary anthology that situates contemporary science within its complex philosophical, historical, and sociological contexts.

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      Requiem for the Ego: Freud and the Origins of Postmodernism

      Alfred I. Tauber

      The attack on psychoanalysis launched by Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein converged on Freud’s construction of the modernist ego, thereby providing the competing notions of subjectivity and agency that characterize postmodernism.

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      Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing

      Alfred I. Tauber

      Henry David Thoreau was caught at a critical turn in the history of science, between the ebb of Romanticism and the rising tide of positivism. This book shows how he…

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      Science and the Quest for Reality

      An interdisciplinary anthology that situates contemporary science within its complex philosophical, historical, and sociological contexts. The anthology is divided between, firstly, characterizing science as an intellectual activity and, secondly, defining…

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      The Immune Self: Theory or Metaphor?

      Alfred I. Tauber (Boston University)

      A study of immunology from its origins at the end of the nineteenth century to its contemporary formulation. The book offers an extended philosophical critique of immunology, in which the…

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      The Immune Self: Theory or Metaphor?

      Alfred I. Tauber (Boston University)

      A critical study of immunology from its origins at the end of the nineteenth century to its contemporary formulation. The book offers a philosophical critique of immunology, in which the…

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      The Triumph of Uncertainty: Science and Self in the Postmodern Age

      Alfred I. Tauber (Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine, emeritus, Boston University)

      A unique autobiographical overview of how science as a discipline of thought has been characterized by philosophers and historians over the past century.

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      The Triumph of Uncertainty: Science and Self in the Postmodern Age

      Alfred I. Tauber (Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine, emeritus, Boston University)

      A unique autobiographical overview of how science as a discipline of thought has been characterized by philosophers and historians over the past century.

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      The Generation of Diversity: Clonal Selection Theory and the Rise of Molecular Immunology

      Alfred I. Tauber,Scott H. Podolsky

      This book is an intellectual history of the major theoretical problem in immunology and its resolution in the post-World War II period. In recent years immunology has been one of…

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      Immunity: The Evolution of an Idea

      Alfred I. Tauber (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Zoltan Kohn Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Zoltan Kohn Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Boston University)

      Modern immunology traditionally conceives of the immune system as providing defense against pathogens. Alfred I. Tauber criticizes this conception of immunity as too narrow, because it discounts much of the…

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      Immunity: The Evolution of an Idea

      Alfred I. Tauber (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Zoltan Kohn Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Zoltan Kohn Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Boston University)

      In Immunity, Alfred Tauber sets forth a new theory of immunology that rejects the common principle of self and non-self, and the immune system’s role as a protector of the…

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      Metchnikoff and the Origins of Immunology: From Metaphor to Theory

      Alfred I. Tauber (Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Boston University School of Medicine),Leon Chernyak (Research Associate of Professor Tauber)

      This fascinating intellectual history is the first critical study of the work of Elie Metchnikoff, the founding father of immunology.

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