Defending Life - The Nature of Host-Parasite Relations (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)

'Defending Life' discusses the relationship between hosts and parasites. It contains detailed descriptions of the immune system and the microbial world as well as methodological and conceptual clarifications. Its emphasis on analytical abstractions, coherent patterns and generative mechanisms makes possible the distinction between genuine causality and coincidental associations and increases the understanding of why we observe what we observe.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 this argument, the book investigates life at all layers, from molecules up through cells, organisms and ecosystems.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2007
First published:	2007
Authors:	Elling Ulvestad
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	241
Edition:	2007 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-5675-8
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere Promotions
LSN:	1-4020-5675-3
Barcode:	9781402056758

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