Defending Life The Nature of Host-Parasite Relations /

• Main Author: Ulvestad, Elling (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Medical microbiology.; Biology > Philosophy.; Life sciences.; Biomedicine.; Life Sciences, general.; Medical Microbiology.; Philosophy of Biology.

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 t...

Table of Contents:

• Tracks of thought
• Immunobiology
• Adaptive plasticity
• Natura naturans
• Disabled defences.