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Requiem for the Ego: Freud and the Origins of Postmodernism

By Alfred I. Tauber

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Hardcover:

9780804787444 | Stanford Univ Pr, September 18, 2013, cover price $80.00

Paperback:

9780804788298 | Stanford Univ Pr, September 18, 2013, cover price $24.95

Science and the Quest for Meaning

Product Description: In this deeply thoughtful exploration, Alfred Tauber, a practicing scientist and highly regarded philosopher, eloquently traces the history of the philosophy of science, seeking in the end to place science within the humanistic context from which it originated...read more

By Alfred I. Tauber

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9781602582101 | Baylor Univ Pr, September 15, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In this deeply thoughtful exploration, Alfred Tauber, a practicing scientist and highly regarded philosopher, eloquently traces the history of the philosophy of science, seeking in the end to place science within the humanistic context from which it originated.

Patient Autonomy And the Ethics of Responsibility

Product Description: The principle of patient autonomy dominates the contemporary debate over medical ethics. In this examination of the doctor-patient relationship, physician and philosopher Alfred Tauber argues that the idea of patient autonomy -- which was inspired by other rights-based movements of the 1960s -- was an extrapolation from political and social philosophy that fails to ground medicine's moral philosophy...read more

By Alfred I. Tauber

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Hardcover:

9780262201605 | Mit Pr, November 1, 2005, cover price $62.00

Paperback:

9780262701129 | Mit Pr, November 1, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The principle of patient autonomy dominates the contemporary debate over medical ethics.

Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing

By Alfred I. Tauber

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Hardcover:

9780520225275 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $85.00

Paperback:

9780520239159 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $33.95

The Evolutionary Biology Papers of Elie Metchnikoff

By Helena Gourko (editor), Elie Metchnikoff, Alfred I. Tauber (editor) and Donald I. Williamson (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780792360674 | Kluwer Academic Pub, December 1, 2000, cover price $209.00

Biochemistry of the Acute Allergic Reactions

Product Description: Focusing on the complex process of the acute immunologic response, this timely book details current research involving humoral and cellular components, serving as a convenient and concise summary of advances in the study of the pathophysiology of allergy...read more

By Alfred I. Tauber

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9780471515142 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, May 1, 2000, cover price $106.00 | also contains Social Welfare + Enhanced Pearson Etext Access Card: Politics and Public Policy | About this edition: Focusing on the complex process of the acute immunologic response, this timely book details current research involving humoral and cellular components, serving as a convenient and concise summary of advances in the study of the pathophysiology of allergy.

Confessions of a Medicine Man: An Essay in Popular Philosophy

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By Alfred I. Tauber

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Hardcover:

9780262201148 | Mit Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $30.00

Paperback:

9780262700726 | Reprint edition (Bradford Books, February 28, 2000), cover price $23.00

The Generation of Diversity: Clonal Selection Theory and the Rise of Molecular Immunology

Product Description: In recent decades immunology has been one of the most exciting--and successful--fields of biomedical research. Over the past thirty years immunologists have acquired a detailed understanding of the immune system's unique recognition mechanism and of the cellular and chemical means used to destroy or neutralize invading organisms...read more

By Scott H. Podolsky and Alfred I. Tauber

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Hardcover:

9780674771819 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $97.00 | About this edition: In recent decades immunology has been one of the most exciting--and successful--fields of biomedical research.

Paperback:

9780674001824 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 25, 2000, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: In recent decades immunology has been one of the most exciting--and successful--fields of biomedical research.

Science and the Quest for Reality

Product Description: Since Galileo, critics have waged a relentless assault against science, attacking it as dehumanizing, reductionist, relativistic, dominating, and imperialistic. Supporters meanwhile view science as synonymous with modernity and progress...read more

By Alfred I. Tauber (editor)

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9780814782187 | New York Univ Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Since Galileo, critics have waged a relentless assault against science, attacking it as dehumanizing, reductionist, relativistic, dominating, and imperialistic.

9780333646328 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 20, 1996, cover price $189.00 | About this edition: An inter-disciplinary anthology that situates contemporary science within its complex philosophical, historical, and sociological contexts.

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9780333646335 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 20, 1996, cover price $69.99 | About this edition: An inter-disciplinary anthology that situates contemporary science within its complex philosophical, historical, and sociological contexts.

9780814782200 | New York Univ Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Since Galileo, critics have waged a relentless assault against science, attacking it as dehumanizing, reductionist, relativistic, dominating, and imperialistic.

The Elusive Synthesis: Aesthetics and Science

Product Description: The tension between art and science may be traced back to the Greeks. What became "natural philosophy" and later "science" has traditionally been posed as a fundamental alternative to poetry and art. It is a theme that has commanded central attention in Western thought, as it captures the ancient conflict of Apollo and Dionysus over what deserves to order our thought and serve as the aspiration of our cultural efforts...read more

By Alfred I. Tauber (editor)

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9780792339045 | Kluwer Academic Pub, November 1, 1996, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: The tension between art and science may be traced back to the Greeks.

The Immune Self: Theory or Metaphor?

Product Description: The Immune Self is a critical study of immunology from its origins at the end of the nineteenth century to its contemporary formulation. The book offers the first extended philosophical critique of immunology, in which the function of the term "self" that underlies the structure of current immune theory is analyzed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Alfred I. Tauber

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Hardcover:

9780521461887 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1994, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: The Immune Self is a critical study of immunology from its origins at the end of the nineteenth century to its contemporary formulation.

Paperback:

9780521574433 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 28, 1996), cover price $64.99 | About this edition: The Immune Self is a critical study of immunology from its origins at the end of the nineteenth century to its contemporary formulation.

Organism and the Origins of Self

Product Description: "De la vaporisation et de la centralisation du Moi. Tout est la. " Charles Baudelaire (journal entry) This anthology is my visit to Oz. On sabbatical in 1988, I chose to reeducate myself in general biology, first broadening my erudition as an immunologist, and then extending that horizon into evolutionary biology and embryology...read more

By Alfred I. Tauber (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780792311850 | Kluwer Academic Pub, August 1, 1991, cover price $289.00 | About this edition: "De la vaporisation et de la centralisation du Moi.

Paperback:

9789401055079 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, October 4, 2012), cover price $289.00 | About this edition: "De la vaporisation et de la centralisation du Moi.

Metchnikoff and the Origins of Immunology: From Metaphor to Theory

By Leon Chernyak and Alfred I. Tauber

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Hardcover:

9780195064476 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 25, 1991, cover price $195.00

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