Species and Specificity: An Interpretation of the History of Immunology - Rilegato

Mazumdar, Pauline M. H.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0521431727 ISBN 13: 9780521431729

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Riassunto

In the first hundred years of its history, the problems of species and specificity were the core problems of research and practice in immunology. The old botanical dispute about the nature of species reappeared in the late nineteenth century in the disputes of the bacteriologists, to be followed by their students, the immunologists, immunochemists and blood group geneticists. In the course of this controversy, Mazumdar argues, five generations of scientific protagonists make themselves aggressively plain. Their science is designed only in part to wrest an answer from nature: it is at least as important to wring an admission of defeat from their opponents. One of those on the losing side of the debate was the German immunochemist Karl Landsteiner, whose unitarian views were excluded from the state health and medical institutions of Europe, where specificity and pluralism, the legacies of Robert Koch and Paul Erlich, were entrenched.

Su questo libro

Recensione:

' ... you will have to read this fascinating book'. Richard A. Lake, The Times Higher Education Supplement

'Mazumdar has produced an immensely well-researched account.' Bernard Dixon, New Scientist

'It is perhaps the human cost of such encounters that makes Mazumdar's account of this particular conflict so enthralling.' British Journal for the History of Science

'Mazumdar's thesis is an important and persuasive one that deserves serious attention from anyone interested in 19th and 20th century biology.' John E. Lesch, Science

'This book is abundantly and well illustrated with many photographs.' Fred S. Rosen, Nature

Descrizione del libro:

In the first hundred years of its history, the problems of species and specificity were the core problems of research and practice in immunology. Professor Mazumdar recounts the scientific debates that have taken place over these problems among bacteriologists, immunologists, immunochemists and blood group geneticists.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0521431727
• ISBN 13: 9780521431729
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 476