LEADER 04223nam 22006015 450 001 9911016079903321 005 20250719130241.0 010 $a3-031-96484-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-96484-8 035 $a(CKB)39698268300041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-96484-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32234547 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32234547 035 $a(EXLCZ)9939698268300041 100 $a20250719d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEndless Immunity $eRethinking the Immune System /$fby Marc Daëron 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (XXII, 303 p. 23 illus., 13 illus. in color.) 311 08$a3-031-96483-7 327 $aPart I. Introduction: A System to Defend Living Beings Against Each Other. Part II. The Defense: Before the Immune System -- The Invention of the Immune System -- The Immune System Facing its Challenges. Part III. Logics of the Living: In Space and Time -- Itself -- Who am I? Part IV. The Compromise:- The Reaction -- The Relationship -- Beyond Good and Evil -- Part V. Conclusion: A System that Enables Living Beings to Live with each Other. 330 $aThis book takes the reader on an inspiring journey into the immune system, challenging long-held beliefs about immunity. It examines the immune system under historical, philosophical and biological perspectives. It proposes a new way of understanding immunity that goes beyond the binary opposition between self and non-self. Indeed, we, the livings, are chimeras. Mammals, birds, reptiles or fish, insects, spiders or mollusks, plants or algae, we are all made up of a community of living beings who share their lives in the same 'meta-organism'. If we live together, it is because we need each other to live, and if we can live together, it is because an immune system makes it possible, by adapting us to them and by adapting them to us. From this mutual adaptation a new kind of immunity emerges, dynamic, relational, never acquired, an endless immunity. Immunity that this system makes possible is not perfect, far from it, it is a compromise which does not always prevent disease; sometimes it even causes it. Disease is the cost of immunity. Because what the immune system enables is much more essential than the defense of the organism, it is the very existence of the meta-organism that we are. Immunity is more than a protection; it is a condition of existence. With its didactic structure and accessible style, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested in understanding the nature and function of the immune system. It also offers different levels of complexity from which the reader can choose, depending on his or her background, without compromising the main message of the text. With a Foreword from Alfred I. Tauber About the Author: Former Director of the Immunology department of Institute Pasteur in Paris, Marc Daëron, MD, PhD, MPhil, is currently an Inserm emeritus research director at the Centre d?immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, an invited scientist at Institute Pasteur, and an associate member of the Institut d?histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques. 606 $aImmunology 606 $aScience$xPhilosophy 606 $aMedical microbiology 606 $aMolecular evolution 606 $aImmunology 606 $aPhilosophy of Science 606 $aMedical Microbiology 606 $aMolecular Evolution 615 0$aImmunology. 615 0$aScience$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aMedical microbiology. 615 0$aMolecular evolution. 615 14$aImmunology. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Science. 615 24$aMedical Microbiology. 615 24$aMolecular Evolution. 676 $a571.96 676 $a616.079 700 $aDae?ron$b M$g(Marc),$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01889257 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911016079903321 996 $aEndless Immunity$94529429 997 $aUNINA