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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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      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 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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      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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      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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      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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