Author: SILVERSTEIN, ARTHUR M
Title: A history of immunology / Arthur M. Silverstein
Description: San Diego : Academic Press 1989. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute with its presentation bookplate and minor library marks. being presented by the Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund. Physical description; xxi. 422 pages : illustrations. portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; About half of the chapters were published in abbreviated form in the journal Cellular immunology. Includes bibliographic references and indexes. Contents; On History and Historians. Theories of Acquired Immunity. The Royal Experiment on Immunity: (1721-1722). Cellular versus Humoral Immunity: Determinants and Consequences of an Epic Nineteenth-Century Battle. Theories of Antibody Formation. The Concept of Immunologic Specificity. Immunologic Specificity. Continued. Horror Autotoxicus: The Concept of Autoimmunity. The Donath-Landsteiner Autoantibody: The Incommensurable Languages of Immunological Dispute. Allergy and Immunopathology: The Price of Immunity. Anti-antibodies and Anti-idiotype Immunoregulation: (1899-1904). Transplantation and Immunogenetics. Magic Bullets and Poisoned Arrows: The Uses of Antibody. Appendix A: The Calendar of Immunologic Progress. Appendix B: Nobel Prize Highlights in Immunology. Appendix C: Biographical Dictionary. Summary; 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 culture of the discipline. Subjects; 18th Century. 19th Century. 20th Century. Allergy and Immunology — history. Immunology — History. Allergy and Immunology — history. History of Science. Allergy and Immunology. Immunologic techniques — History. Immunity. history. History of Medicine. Immunology. Medical / Immunology. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. ISBN: 012643770X. Weight in Kg appr.:

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