Lousy Sex : Creating Self in an Infectious World /
"In Lousy Sex Gerald Callahan explores the science of self, illustrating the immune system's role in forming individual identity. Blending the scientific essay with deeply personal narratives, these poignant and enlightening stories use microbiology and immunology to explore a new way to a...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boulder :
University Press of Colorado,
[2013]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Leonardo's Dream
- Origins: Where Comes From
- 1. First Self
- 2. Layers of Self
- 3. Self in the Soil
- 4. Gathering Our Selves
- Middles: Childhood's End
- 5. The Opposite of Sex
- 6. Lousy Sex
- 7. The Wizards of?
- 8. Dreams of the Blind
- This Is Not the End: Facing Up to Our Immortality
- 9. The Mysterious Visions of Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck
- 10. The Rock Collector
- 11. On the Lip of Immortality
- Epilogue