In the first hundred years of its history, the problems of species and specificity were the core problems of research and practice in immunology. The old botanical dispute about the nature of species reappeared in the late nineteenth century in the disputes of the bacteriologists, to be followed by their students, the immunologists, immunochemists and blood group geneticists. In the course of this controversy, Mazumdar argues, five generations of scientific protagonists make themselves aggressively plain. Their science is designed only in part to wrest an answer from nature: it is at least as important to wring an admission of defeat from their opponents. One of those on the losing side of the debate was the German immunochemist Karl Landsteiner, whose unitarian views were excluded from the state health and medical institutions of Europe, where specificity and pluralism, the legacies of Robert Koch and Paul Erlich, were entrenched.
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- Artikelnummer: 9780521525237
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-521-52523-7
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 18.06.2002
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2002
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 766 g
- Seiten: 473
- Format (B x H x T): 152 x 229 x 28 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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