Modern immunology traditionally conceives of the immune system as providing defense
against pathogens. Alfred I. Tauber criticizes this conception of immunity as too narrow …

In recent decades immunology has been one of the most exciting--and successful--fields of
biomedical research. Over the past thirty years immunologists have acquired a detailed …

More than ninety percent of all scientific history has been made during the last half century.
So far, however, only a fraction of historical scholarship has dealt with this period. Merely a …

Those present at the" birth" of modern immunology never expected their creation to live long-
but they were sure that its brief life would be immensely productive. In 1957, Macfarlane …

There is always a certain scepticism as to the possibility of'contemporary history'. Peter
Hennessy, author of an award-winning historical study of post-war Britain, records, for …

The COVID-19 pandemic provides stark evidence of the importance of medicine on a global
scale. However, revisiting the influenza pandemic of 1918 provided a perspective as we …

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 & …

Do historians inscribe their own lives in their narratives? Do the threads of their life stories
reveal themselves in their work? To varying degrees, I believe they do-both in intellectual …

In this chapter, we provide an overview of attempts from different disciplines to treat
immunology and immunity as objects in the history of science. Despite the science's …

Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) is certainly a candidate for the title of polymath, as the article
by Biderman and Herman attests (p. 66). Were his achievements indeed of sufficient merit to …