Species and Specificity

Name: Species and Specificity
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An Interpretation of the History of Immunology

Autor: Pauline M. H. Mazumdar

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In the first hundred years of its history, the problems of species and specificity were the core pro...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Pauline M. H. Mazumdar

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

1995

Pagini

476

EAN

9780521431729

ISBN

0521431727

Enbook ID

02030665

Editura

Cambridge University Press

Greutate

771

Dimensiuni

161 x 234 x 27

Descriere completă

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.

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