| Autore |
Pradeu Thomas
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| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2019
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (83 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
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| Disciplina |
616.079
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| Collana |
Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of biology, 2515-1126
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| Soggetto topico |
Immunology - Philosophy
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| ISBN |
1-108-57502-1
1-108-57663-X
1-108-61670-4
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| 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.
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