Tauber, Alfred I. Immunity The Evolution of an Idea (Hardback) 9780190651244

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Автор: Tauber, Alfred I.
Название: Immunity The Evolution of an Idea (Hardback)
ISBN: 9780190651244
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Классификация:

История западной философии

Иммунология

Философия науки

ISBN-10: 0190651245
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 328
Вес: 0.58 кг.
Дата издания: 30.03.2017
Язык: English
Размер: 166 x 243 x 31
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Основная тема: Immunology
Подзаголовок: The evolution of an idea
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Поставляется из: Англии
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 systems 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 immunitys 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.

Immunity The Evolution of an Idea (Hardback), Tauber, Alfred I.