The age of immunology : conceiving a future in an alienating world /

In this fascinating and inventive work, A. David Napier argues that the central assumption of immunology--that we survive through the recognition and elimination of non-self--has become a defining concept of the modern age. Tracing this immunological understanding of self and other through an incred...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Napier, A. David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Philosophy.
Intercultural communication.
Self.
Change.
Immunology.
Ethnology.
Cross-cultural studies.
Self-perception.
Ethnology
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Self Concept
Ego
Allergy and Immunology
Ethnologie > Philosophie.
Moi (Psychologie)
Changement (Philosophie)
Immunologie.
Ethnologie.
ĐEtudes transculturelles.
Perception de soi.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Self-perception
Cross-cultural studies
Change
Ethnology > Philosophy
Immunology
Intercultural communication
Self
Kulturphilosophie
Wetenschappen.
Interculturele communicatie.
Zelf.
Sociale identiteit.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Preface: Nailed to the Crossroads; Introduction; Part I: Anthropology; 1. Anthropological Inoculations; 2. Thinking Immunologically; 3. Immunology and Illness Experience; Part II: Epistemology; 4. Foreign AIDS: Cultural Relations as an Immunological Form; 5. Unnatural Selection: Social Symbols of the Microbial World; 6. Reciprocity: Solution and Dissolution in Immunology; 7. Undiscovered Selves; Part III: Autogeny; Epilogue: Nonself Help; Notes; References; Index.

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