At War Within The Double-Edged Sword of Immunity (Hardback), Clark, William R.
Автор: Clark, William R. Название: At War Within The Double-Edged Sword of Immunity (Paperback) ISBN: 0195115686 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195115680 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2058.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Taking a tour through the immune system, this work examines the history of its discovery, the ways it protects us and its potential for profound harm. Each medical problem involving the immune system is explained in non-technical terms, to make its complex workings comprehensible.
Автор: John Playfair and Gregory Bancroft Название: Infection & Immunity Fourth Edition ISBN: 0199609500 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199609505 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 9027.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Gives a perfectly balanced overview of the field, describing the key infectious agents our bodies encounter and how our immune system responds to them. It also explains how diseases are spread and what measures we can take to control this spread, from vaccination to increasing public awareness.
Автор: Tauber, Alfred I. Название: Immunity The Evolution of an Idea (Hardback) ISBN: 0190651245 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190651244 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 10930.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Modern immunology traditionally conceives of the immune system as providing defense against pathogens. Alfred I. Tauber criticizes this conception of immunity as too narrow, because it discounts much of the immune system's other normal functions. These include active tolerance of nutritional exchanges with the environment and the stabilization of cooperative relationships with resident micro-organisms. An expanded account extends immunity's functional role from singular 'defense' to broadened discernment of environmental 'exchange.' This ecological perspective has profound theoretical implications, for the basic notion of immune identity is reconfigured: highlighting the organism as a holobiont (a consortium of diverse organisms living in cooperative relationships) challenges prevailing concepts of individuality and the self/nonself dichotomy heretofore organizing immune theory. Indeed, if theoretical interest is focused on the challenges of maintaining immune balance in the full ecological context of the organism, then immune regulation assumes new complexity. Tauber maintains that the key to unravelling that puzzle requires a critical re-assessment of the cognitive processes that underlie immune effector functions. Accordingly, he provides the outline of a re-formulated 'cognitive paradigm' that dispenses with agent-based models and adopts an ecologically conceived understanding of perception and information processing. The implications of this revised configuration of immunity and its deconstructed notions of individuality and selfhood have wide significance for philosophers and life scientists working in immunology, ecology, and the cognitive sciences.
