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  title info:
    title: Defending Life
    sub title: The Nature of Host-Parasite Relations
  name:
    name part: Ulvestad, Elling.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIX, 241 p. online resource.
  abstract: Defending Life discusses the relationship between hosts and parasites. A major contention of the book is that the immune system depends ontologically on the ecosystem in which it is embedded; it would not have the features it has if it was not related in one way or other to parasitic agents and to the host’s own cells and tissues. To sustain the argument, life is investigated at all layers – from molecules up through cells, organisms and ecosystems. Together with the inverse course, which goes from ecological contingencies down to gene-expression profiles, the approach facilitates an advanced understanding of immunocompetence as well as its converse, immunoincompetence. The emphasis on analytical abstractions, coherent patterns and generative mechanisms makes possible the distinction between genuine causality and coincidental associations, and thus increases the understanding of why we observe what we observe. The book contains detailed descriptions of the immune system and the microbial world as well as methodological and conceptual clarifications. "The book is highly recommended to those who want to dig into the scientific challenges involved in understanding the complex demands and tasks that nature had bestowed the immune system. " Professor Roland Jonsson The Gade Institute, University of Bergen, Norway.
  table of contents: Tracks of thought -- Immunobiology -- Adaptive plasticity -- Natura naturans -- Disabled defences.
  note: by Elling Ulvestad.
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Immunology
  subject:
    topic: Medical microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Biology
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Biomedicine
  subject:
    topic: Immunology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: Medical Microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Biology
  classification: QR180-189.5
  classification: 616.079
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781402056765
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5676-1
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204142011.0
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