Crafting Immunity

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ISBN: 9780754657590 | 0754657590
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 4/28/2008

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York Univ., Toronto, Canada. Suggests that it was the craft-like, small-scale, and local conditions of clinical medicine that turned the immunity of individuals and populations into biomedical objects. For medical historians and sociologists.

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Editors' introduction
Reason and Risk
Making sense of vaccination c.1800
Risk, efficacy and viral attenuation in debates over smallpox vaccination in Montreal, 1870-1877
The Conundrum of Allergy
'A private line to medicine': the clinical and laboratory contours of allergy in the early 20th century
Germs, vaccine and the rise of allergy
Some Tools of the Trade
Neutralising flu: 'immunological devices' and the making of a virus disease
Ceatures of reason? Picturing viruses at the Pasteur Institute during the 1920s
Immunology in the clinics: reductionism, holism or both?
Antitoxin and anatoxine: the League of Nations and the Institut Pasteur, 1920-1939
Insiders, Immunity and Identity after World War II
Molecular surveillance: a history of radioimmunoassays
Emerging paradigm, emerging disease: molecular immunology and AIDS in the 1980s
Conceptualising the maternal-fetal relationship in reproductive immunology
Canadian vaccine research, production and international regulation
Connaught Laboratories and smallpox vaccines, 1962-1980
Index
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