Tending Adam's Garden
Evolving the Cognitive Immune Self
- 1st Edition - January 28, 2000
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Irun R. Cohen
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 1 7 8 3 5 5 - 6
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 9 4 7 8 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 4 2 3 3 - 1
Tending Adam's Garden describes and explains the way in which our immune system works from a novel perspective. The book uses metaphors and examples to bring the immune system… Read more
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Request a sales quoteTending Adam's Garden describes and explains the way in which our immune system works from a novel perspective. The book uses metaphors and examples to bring the immune system to life and explores the fundamental miracle of nature. Written in plain language for a broad audience, this book encompasses much more than just immunology, exploring more fundamental matters such as causality, information, energy, evolution, cognition and individuality, as well as the strategy of the immune system and its role in health and disease.
- Provides a unique perspective on the immune system from one of the keenest scientific and philosophical brains in the world
- Uses metaphors and case histories to explore themes in an accessible manner
- Written in plain language requiring no specialized vocabulary or specific scientific background in the subject
Professional Immunologists, students of immunology, scientists in other disciplines within the life sciences at all levels, physicists, cognitive scientists, neurobiologists, philosphers of science and mathematicians, interested readers curious about life, health and disease
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Prologue
Introduction
On Causality and Evolution
On Cognition
On Immunity
On Autoimmunity
On Tending Adam's Garden
Prologue
Introduction
On Causality and Evolution
On Cognition
On Immunity
On Autoimmunity
On Tending Adam's Garden
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 28, 2000
- No. of pages (eBook): 296
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780121783556
- Paperback ISBN: 9780123994783
- eBook ISBN: 9780080542331
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Irun R. Cohen
Dr. Irun R. Cohen studied philosophy at Northwestern University (B.A., 1959) and medicine at Northwestern Medical School (MD., 1963). He did pediatric training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and research in infectious diseases as a commissioned officer of the U.S. Public Health Service at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia. Currently, Dr. Cohen is the Director of the Robert Koch-Minerva Center for Research in Autoimmune Diseases, at the Weizmann Institute of Science, in Rehovot, Israel, and the Director of the Center for the Study of Emerging Diseases, in Jerusalem, Israel. He has published numerous scientific journal articles and edited or co-authored 4 books.
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The Weizman Institute of Science, Rehovot, IsraelRead Tending Adam's Garden on ScienceDirect