Metchnikoff and the Origins of Immunology: From Metaphor to Theory

by Alfred I. Tauber and Leon Chernyak

This fascinating intellectual history is the first critical study of the work of Elie Metchnikoff, the founding father of modern immunology. Metchnikoff authored and championed the theory that phagocytic cells actively defend the host body against pathogens and diseased cells. His program developed from comparative embryological studies that sought to establish genealogical relations between species at the dawn of the Darwinian revolution. In this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019506447X
• ISBN13: 9780195064476
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"