A History of Modern Immunology

• Author : Zoltan A. Nagy
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 11 October 2013

A History of Modern Immunology: A Path Toward Understanding describes, analyzes, and conceptualizes several seminal events and discoveries in immunology in the last third of the 20th century, the era when most questions about the biology of the immune system were raised and also found their answers. Written by an eyewitness to this history, the book gives insight into personal aspects of the important figures in the discipline, and its data driven emphasis on understanding will benefit both young and

• Author : Leslie Brent
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 June 1997

Those entering the field of transplantation are frequently unaware of the topics historical roots and even of the background on which modern discoveries in tolerance, histocompabatibility antigens, and xenotransplantation are based. A History of Transplantation Immunology is an account, written by one of the founding fathers of the field, of how tissue and organ transplantation has become one of the most successful branches of late 20th century medicine. The book helps place the work of contemporary scientists into its proper

• Author : Arthur M. Silverstein
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 30 May 2009

Written by an immunologist, this book traces the concept of immunity from ancient times up to the present day, examining how changing concepts and technologies have affected the course of the science. It shows how the personalities of scientists and even political and social factors influenced both theory and practice in the field. With fascinating stories of scientific disputes and shifting scientific trends, each chapter examines an important facet of this discipline that has been so central to the development

• Author : Stanley A. Plotkin
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 11 May 2011

Vaccinology, the concept of a science ranging from the study of immunology to the development and distribution of vaccines, was a word invented by Jonas Salk. This book covers the history of the methodological progress in vaccine development and to the social and ethical issues raised by vaccination. Chapters include "Jenner and the Vaccination against Smallpox," "Viral Vaccines," and "Ethical and Social Aspects of vaccines." Contributing authors include pioneers in the field, such as Samuel L. Katz and Hilary Koprowski.

• Author : Alfred I. Tauber
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 02 January 2017

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 immune system's other normal functions. These include active tolerance of nutritional exchanges with the environment and the stabilization of cooperative relationships with resident micro-organisms. An expanded account extends immunity's functional role from singular 'defense' to broadened discernment of environmental 'exchange.' This ecological perspective has profound theoretical implications, for the

• Author : Jennifer Keelan
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 02 March 2017

Immunity is as old as illness itself, yet historians have only just begun to take up the challenge of reconstructing the modern transformation of attempts to protect against disease. Crafting Immunity assembles in one volume the most recent efforts of an international group of scholars to place the diverse practices of immunity in their historical contexts. It is this diversity that provides the book with its greatest source of strength. Collectively, the papers in this volume suggest that it was

• Author : Edward S. Golub,Douglas R. Green
• Publisher : Sinauer Associates, Incorporated
• Release : 01 June 1991

In this second, revised edition of a textbook, E.S. Golub joins forces with D.R. Green to provide an up-to-date synthesis of modern immunology, spanning the full range of molecular, cellular and clinical immunology. Continuing in the tradition of the first edition and of The Cellular Basis of the Immune Response, Golub and Green describe immunology as a process by using experimental design and by following the sequence of experiments that have led to the current state of knowledge

• Author : Richard B. Gallagher,Jean Gilder,Gustav J.V. Nossal,Gaetano Salvatore
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 14 July 1995

Immunology has progressed in spectacular fashion in the last four decades. Studies of the response to infectious agents, transplanted organs and tumours (and the potential to manipulate that response), and the study of the immune system as a model system in molecular cell biology have yielded dramatic advances in our understanding of the mechanisms of immunity. The field has attracted a continuous stream of the brightest theoretical and experimental scientists for over forty years. This book conveys the philosophies and

• Author : William R. Clark
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 30 November 1995

In the seventeenth century, smallpox reigned as the world's worst killer. Luck, more than anything else, decided who would live and who would die. That is, until Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, an English aristocrat, moved to Constantinople and noticed the Turkish practice of "ingrafting" or inoculation, which, she wrote, made "the small- pox...entirely harmless." Convinced by what she witnessed, she allowed her six-year-old son to be ingrafted, and the treatment was a complete success--the young Montagu enjoyed lifelong immunity

• Author : Arthur M. Silverstein
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 02 December 2012

This is a professional-level intellectual history of the development of immunology from about 1720 to about 1970. Beginning with the work and insights of the early immunologists in the 18th century, Silverstein traces the development of the major ideas which have formed immunology down to the maturation of the discipline in the decade following the Second World War. Emphasis is placed on the philosophic and sociologic climate of the scientific milieu in which immunology has developed, providing a background to the broad

• Author : William R. Clark
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 01 June 1980

Immunologie.

• Author : Marc Lapp
• Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
• Release : 21 August 1997

Dr. Marc Lappe crafts a radical new theory of immunity that stresses the concept of balance, and is remarkable for accommodating both Eastern and Western thought. This groundbreaking volume opens our minds and sets us on the path toward a healthier understanding of the body's inner forces and the difference that can mean life or death. 4 illustrations.

• Author : Alfred I. Tauber
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 25 November 1994

The Immune Self is a critical study of immunology from its origins at the end of the nineteenth century to its contemporary formulation. The book offers the first extended philosophical critique of immunology, in which the function of the term "self" that underlies the structure of current immune theory is analyzed. However, this analysis is carefully integrated into a broad survey of the major scientific developments in immunology, a discussion of their historical context, and a review of the conceptual

• Author : Nancy G. Siraisi
• Publisher : University of Michigan Press
• Release : 05 November 2007

A major, path-breaking work, History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is Nancy G. Siraisi's examination into the intersections of medically trained authors and history in the period 1450 to 1650. Rather than studying medicine and history as separate disciplinary traditions, Siraisi calls attention to their mutual interaction in the rapidly changing world of Renaissance erudition. Far from their contributions being a mere footnote in the historical record, medical writers had extensive involvement in the reading, production, and shaping of historical

• Author : Derek S. Linton
• Publisher : American Philosophical Society
• Release : 01 June 2023

In 1901 Emil von Behring received the first Nobel Prize in medicine for serum therapy against diphtheria, a disease that killed thousands of infants annually. Diphtheria serum was the first major cure of the bacteriological era & its development generated novel procedures for testing, standardizing, & regulating drugs. Since the intro. of antibiotics, Behring & his work have largely been forgotten. In the first English-language scientific biography of Behring, Derek S. Linton seeks to restore Behring's reputation. He emphasizes Behring's seminal contributions to the