Author: Silverstein, Arthur M.
Title: A History of Immunology
Description: San Diego [CA], Academic Press, 1989. orig. boards, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, xxi, 422 pp.. Textual illustrations.. Minor rubbing. Some light page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contents: Theory and Historians; 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 Immunological Specificity; Immunological Specificity, Continued;"Horror Autodoxicus": 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 Posoned Arrows; The Uses of Antibody.

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