Philosophy of immunology /
Immunology is central to contemporary biology and medicine, but it also provides novel philosophical insights. Its most significant contribution to philosophy concerns the understanding of biological individuality: what a biological individual is, what makes it unique, how its boundaries are establi...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of biology.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the centrality of immunity in biology and medicine
- Immunity : a matter of defense?
- The unity of the individual : self-nonself, autoimmunity, tolerance, and symbiosis
- Cancer as a deunification of the individual
- Neuroimmunology : the intimate dialogue between the nervous system and the immune system.