{"product_id":"species-and-specificity-an-interpretation-of-the-history-of-immunology-paperback-9780521525237","title":"Species and Specificity; An Interpretation of the History of Immunology (Paperback) 9780521525237","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSpecies and Specificity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Interpretation of the History of Immunology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn account of scientific disputes over the core problems of research and practice in immunology.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePauline M. H. Mazumdar (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521525237, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 18 July 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e476 pages, 65 b\/w illus.  3 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.3 x 3 cm, 0.753 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This book is abundantly and well illustrated with many photographs.' Fred S. Rosen, Nature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Specificity and Unitarianism in XIX Century Botany and Bacteriology: 1. The Unitarians\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Linnaeans\u003cbr\u003e 3. The dominance of specificity\u003cbr\u003e 4. The history of XIX century bacteriology from this point of view\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Inherited Controversy: Specificity and Unitarianism in Immunology: 5. Dichotomy and classification in the thought of Paul Erlich\u003cbr\u003e 6. Max von Gruber and Paul Erlich\u003cbr\u003e 7. Max von Gruber and Karl Landsteiner\u003cbr\u003e 8. Unity, simplicity, continuity: the philosophy of Ernst Mach\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Chemical Affinity and Immune Specificity: The Argument in Chemical Terms: 9. Structural and physical chemistry in the late XIX century\u003cbr\u003e 10. Erlich's chemistry and its opponents: the dissociation theory of Arrhenius and Madsen\u003cbr\u003e 11. Erlich's chemistry and its opponents: the colloid theory of Landsteiner and Pauli\u003cbr\u003e 12. Erlich's chemistry and its opponents: the new structural chemistry of Landsteiner and Pick\u003cbr\u003e 13. The decline and persistence of Erlich's chemical theory\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Absolute Specificity in Blood Group Genetics: 14. Immunology and genetics in the early XX century\u003cbr\u003e 15. The specificity of cells and the specificity of proteins\u003cbr\u003e 16. The last confrontation\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20science%20%5BPDX%5D%22\"\u003ePDX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006024864024,"sku":"9780521525237","price":45.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521525237i_f69d7038-0e88-4e27-a79e-57240db4368c.jpg?v=1691368880","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/species-and-specificity-an-interpretation-of-the-history-of-immunology-paperback-9780521525237","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}