The network collective : rise and fall of a scientific paradigm /
The network paradigm dominated immunological research from the early 1970s to the late 1980s. The originator, Niels Jerne, hypothesized that the vast diversity of antibodies in each individual forms a network of mutual "idiotypic" recognition, thus regulating the immune system. In context...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basel ; Boston :
Birkhäuser,
©2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Autobiographical note
- Autobiographical note
- Scientific Knowledge, Delusive or Deductive
- Realism, constructivism, and the naiveté of the experimental scientist
- Beyond underdeterminism: Popper, Kuhn, et al.
- The anthropology of science: Ludwik Fleck et al.
- The science wars
- Origins, Rise, and Fall of the Network Paradigm
- The immune system, pre-network paradigms
- The necessity for an interactive theory of immunity
- Proto-ideas of the network theory: antibody self-regulation, idiotypy, the brain analogy, and cybernetics
- The idiotypic network theory
- The T cell receptor puzzle
- Suppression turned idiotypic
- Network mannerism
- Post-network immunology: Idiotypic network continues at the bedside
- Hindsight
- Science between Fact and Fiction
- The fictional nature of scientific notions
- Fiction turned fact: The case of antibodies
- The enticing network: Fiction forever
- Logic and laws in life science.