Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- The Pluripotent History of Immunology
- In
- Avant: the Journal of the Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard
- Imprint
- vol. 3, no. 1, 2012, pp. 37-54
- Url
- https://avant.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/NSankaran-The-pluripotent-_Avant_12012_online.pdf
- Subject
- Chronological Classification 1901- Applied Sciences Medical and Health Sciences
- Abstract
The historiography of immunology since 1999 is reviewed, in part as a response to claims by historians such as Thomas Söderqvist the field was still immature at the time (Söderqvist & Stillwell 1999). First addressed are the difficulties, past and present, surrounding the disciplinary definition of immunology, which is followed by a commentary on the recent scholarship devoted to the concept of the immune self. The new literature on broad immunological topics is examined and assessed, and specific charges leveled against the paucity of certain types of histories, e.g. biographical and institutional histories, are evaluated. In conclusion, there are compelling indications that the history of immunology has moved past the initial tentative stages identified in the earlier reviews to become a bustling, pluripotent discipline, much like the subject of its scrutiny, and that it continues to develop in many new and exciting directions.
- Source
- Cohn 2012
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