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1 online resource (xviii, 247 pages) : illustrations |
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Monographs on the history and philosophy of biology |
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Monographs on the history and philosophy of biology.
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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
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SUBJECT |
Metchnikoff, Elie, 1845-1916 |
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Metchnikoff, Elie, 1845-1916 fast |
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Mečnikov, Il·ja I. swd |
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Immunologists -- Ukraine -- Biography
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Immunologists -- France -- Biography
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Immunology -- History
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Allergy and Immunology
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Allergy and Immunology -- history
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Immunologists
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Immunology
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Immunologie
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Immunologie.
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France
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Ukraine
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Chernyak, Leon
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ISBN |
142373470X |
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9781423734703 |
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019534510X |
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9780195345100 |
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9780195064476 |
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019506447X |
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