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Author Tauber, Alfred I.

Title Metchnikoff and the origins of immunology : from metaphor to theory / Alfred I. Tauber, Leon Chernyak.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 247 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Monographs on the history and philosophy of biology
Monographs on the history and philosophy of biology.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword / Scott Gilbert -- Metchnikoff's Early Embryology -- Metchnikoff's Embryological Studies after 1872 -- Problem of Evolution in Metchnikoff's Works -- Metchnikoff's Emerging Concept of Inflammation -- Phagocytosis Theory and Its Reception -- Phagocyte Eclipsed -- Epilogue: From Metaphor to Theory -- Morphologists versus Darwinians, the Modern Debate -- Current Views of Phagocyte Function.
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Subject Metchnikoff, Elie, 1845-1916.
Metchnikoff, Elie, 1845-1916.
Mečnikov, Il·ja I.
Immunologists -- Ukraine -- Biography.
Immunologists.
Ukraine.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Immunologists -- France -- Biography.
France.
Immunology -- History.
Immunology.
History.
Allergy and Immunology.
Allergy and Immunology -- history.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1880-1920
Indexed Term Immunology
Genre/Form Biography.
Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Added Author Chernyak, Leon.
Other Form: Print version: Tauber, Alfred I. Metchnikoff and the origins of immunology. New York : Oxford University Press, 1991 (DLC) 90026245
ISBN 142373470X (electronic book)
9781423734703 (electronic book)
019534510X
9780195345100
9780195064476 (acid-free)
019506447X (acid-free)
019506447X (acid-free)