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Les limites du soi : immunologie et identité biologique / / Thomas Pradeu
| Les limites du soi : immunologie et identité biologique / / Thomas Pradeu |
| Autore | Pradeu Thomas |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (395 p.) |
| Disciplina | 571.9/6 |
| Collana | Analytiques |
| Soggetto topico |
Immunospecificity
Immunology Immunity |
| Soggetto non controllato |
organisme
immunité immunologie philosophie du vivant |
| ISBN |
2-7606-3069-2
2-8218-9497-X 2-7606-2582-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
| Nota di contenuto | Comment définir l'immunologie et ses deux concepts centraux, le soi et le non-soi? -- Que signifient les termes "soi" et "non-soi" en immunologie -- Pourquoi la théorie du soi et du non-soi s'est-elle imposée à l'immunologie? -- Les insuffisances de la théorie du soi et du non-soi -- Fondements et détails de la théorie de la continuité -- La théorie de la continuité face aux autres théories immunologiques -- Qu'est-ce qu'un organisme? L'immunité et l'individualité de l'organisme -- L'intérieur et l'extérieur : l'apport de l'immunologie à la thèse co-constructionniste -- Conclusion générale. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910252741803321 |
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Philosophy of immunology / / Thomas Pradeu [[electronic resource]]
| Philosophy of immunology / / Thomas Pradeu [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Pradeu Thomas |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (83 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 616.079 |
| Collana | Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of biology, 2515-1126 |
| Soggetto topico | Immunology - Philosophy |
| ISBN |
1-108-57502-1
1-108-57663-X 1-108-61670-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Philosophy of Immunology -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: The Centrality of Immunity in Biology and Medicine -- 2 Immunity: A Matter of Defense? -- 2.1 Historically, Immunity Has Been Understood As the Capacity of an Organism to Defend Itself against Pathogens -- 2.2 Defensive Immune Mechanisms Have Been Identified in Virtually All Living Things -- 2.3 Extended Immunity: Immunity Goes Well Beyond Defense -- 2.4 Accounting for the Evolution of Immunological Processes and Attributing a Function to the Immune System Have Become Difficult -- 2.5 Is It Still Possible to Offer a Precise and Simple Definition of Immunity? -- 3 The Unity of the Individual: Self-Nonself, Autoimmunity, Tolerance, and Symbiosis -- 3.1 From Early Reflections about Immunological Individuality to the Concepts of "Self" and "Nonself" -- 3.2 Autoimmunity, Tolerance, and Symbiotic Interactions with Microbes -- 3.3 Immunology's Contribution to the Definition of Biological Individuality -- 3.4 The Role of the Immune System in Turning a Set of Heterogeneous Constituents into an Integrated Individual -- 3.5 Combining Different Approaches to Biological Individuality -- 4 Cancer as a Deunification of the Individual -- 4.1 How the Immune System Restrains Cancer: The Complex History of the Idea of Immunosurveillance -- 4.2 The Dual Action of the Immune System in Both Restraining and Promoting Cancer: Immunoediting and Beyond -- 4.3 Immune-Cancer Interactions: Current Views and Clinical Applications -- 4.4 Role of the Immune System in the Breakdown of Biological Individuality That Characterizes Cancer -- 5 Neuroimmunology: The Intimate Dialogue between the Nervous System and the Immune System -- 5.1 From Psychoneuroimmunology and Neuroimmunology to Present-Day Characterizations of the Dialogue between the Nervous and the Immune Systems.
5.2 Interactions between the Nervous and the Immune System in Health -- 5.3 Interactions between the Nervous and the Immune System in Pathological Contexts -- 5.4 Mapping the Different Conceptual Questions Raised by Neuroimmunology -- 5.4.1 Interaction: How Do the Nervous and the Immune System Interact? -- 5.4.2 Similarity: Are the Nervous and the Immune System Structurally and/or Functionally Similar? -- 5.4.3 Overlap: To What Extent Do the Nervous and the Immune System Overlap or Even Constitute a Single System? -- 5.4.4 Origins: Do the Nervous and the Immune System Share Evolutionary Origins? -- 5.4.5 Control: Does the Nervous System Control the Immune System or the Other Way Around? -- 5.5 Conclusion: Some Philosophical Consequences -- References -- Acknowledgments. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910585962803321 |
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Pradeu Thomas
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2019 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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