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Author Tauber, Alfred I

Title Metchnikoff and the origins of immunology : from metaphor to theory / Alfred I. Tauber, Leon Chernyak
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 247 pages) : illustrations
Series Monographs on the history and philosophy of biology
Monographs on the history and philosophy of biology.
Contents Foreword / Scott Gilbert -- Metchnikoff's Early Embryology -- Metchnikoff's Embryological Studies after 1872 -- The Problem of Evolution in Metchnikoff's Works -- Metchnikoff's Emerging Concept of Inflammation -- The Phagocytosis Theory and Its Reception -- The Phagocyte Eclipsed -- Epilogue: From Metaphor to Theory -- Morphologists versus Darwinians, the Modern Debate -- Current Views of Phagocyte Function
Summary 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
Analysis Immunology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Metchnikoff, Elie, 1845-1916
SUBJECT Metchnikoff, Elie, 1845-1916
Metchnikoff, Elie, 1845-1916 fast
Mečnikov, Il·ja I. swd
Subject Immunologists -- Ukraine -- Biography
Immunologists -- France -- Biography
Immunology -- History
Allergy and Immunology
Allergy and Immunology -- history
Immunologists
Immunology
Immunologie
Immunologie.
France
Ukraine
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Chernyak, Leon
ISBN 142373470X
9781423734703
019534510X
9780195345100
9780195064476
019506447X