Crafting immunity : working histories of clinical immunology /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008. |
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| Description: | viii, 308 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History of medicine in context |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7255048 |
Table of Contents:
- Editors' introduction
- Part I. Reason and Risk
- Making sense of vaccination c.1800
- Risk, efficacy and viral attenuation in debates over smallpox vaccination in Montreal, 1870-1877
- Part II. 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
- Part III. 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
- Part IV. 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
