Fundamental immunology / / editor, William E. Paul

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813638903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia : , : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, , [2013]
• ISBN: 1-4511-8203-1; 1-4698-2750-6; 1-4698-7424-5
• Edizione: [7th edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1695 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): PaulWilliam E
• Disciplina: 616.07/9
• Soggetti: Immunology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: section I. Introduction to immunology -- section II. Organization and evolution of the immune system -- section III. Immunoglobulins and B-Lymphocytes -- section IV. T-Lymphocytes -- section V. The intersection of innate and adaptive immunity -- section VI. Induction, regulation, and effector functions of the immune response -- section VII. Immunity to infectious agents -- section VIII. Immunologic mechanisms in disease.
• Sommario/riassunto: Fundamental Immunology Seventh Edition This standard-setting textbook has defined the field of immunology since 1984, and is now in its Seventh Edition continuing to deliver the detailed, authoritative, and timely coverage readers expect. This comprehensive, up-to-date text is ideal for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, basic and clinical immunologists, microbiologists and infectious disease physicians, and any physician treating diseases in which immunologic mechanisms play a role. Now full-color throughout the book's fully revised and updated content reflects the latest advances in the field. Current insights enhance readers' understanding of immune system function. The text's unique approach bridges the gap between basic immunology and the disease process. Extensive coverage of molecular biology explains the molecular dynamics underlying immune disorders and their treatment. Abundant illustrations and tables deliver essential information at a glance. Plus a convenient companion website features ; the fully searchable text with all references linked to PubMed.

Research and Pedagogy: A History of Quantum Physics through Its Textbooks

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910134015603321
• Autore: Navarro Jaume
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edition Open Access, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Collana: Studies 2: Max Planck Research Library in the History and Development of Knowledge
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: Historians of quantum physics and early quantum mechanics have seldom paid attention to the ways the new theory was integrated in physics textbooks, perhaps taking for granted that novelties in science can only be taught once they are fully understood and generally accepted. The essays in this volume challenge this view by studying some of the early books and textbooks in which quantum theory was first introduced. By so doing, the authors show the many ways books and textbooks embody pedagogical and research practices in certain local environments (geographical, disciplinary, in terms of expertise, etc.), as well as the circular feedback between research and pedagogy. Textbooks can become the subject of a history of early quantum physics since the very process of writing a textbook, (i.e., of trying to organise a new doctrine to the newcomer in an accessible way), together with its life as an object that is issued, used, changed, and abandoned, incorporates many of the tensions between research and pedagogy. Furthermore, the life of these books can also help us better situate less known actors in the history of quantum physics, by bringing into the picture the reasons, the context, the research agenda, and other aspects that cannot be found in the publication of research ; papers or in the abundant correspondence between the main physicists involved in this story. The case studies collected in this volume may, at first glance, look like a heterogeneous set. Some books were not, in fact, primarily addressing quantum theory as such, but including some of its early principles in re-shaping the established foundational principles and modes of teaching in fields such as optics and physical chemistry. Others were written by scientists not directly involved in the development of the new physics, and their books were addressed at an audience interested in having only a superficial knowledge of the theory of quanta. Finally, the main actors in the formulation of quantum theory wrote books on the quantum for different purposes: as a way to organise their thoughts, to spread a particular interpretation of the theory, or to press for their personal research agendas, among others. This heterogeneity is, however, the tool the editors use to give a full picture of the role of early textbooks in the history of quantum physics.