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Theoretical Immunology (tendencies towards self and their failures - ie. open model)

Tauber: It was at this juncture that Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet introduced the “self” into the immunological lexicon (Burnet and Fenner 1949) upon that metaphor erected a theory of immunological tolerance that still dominates the field. characterized by multiple, even competing thought-styles (Crist and Tauber 1997) Crist, E. and Tauber, A. I. (1997) “Debating humoral immunity and epistemology: The rivalry of the immunochemists Jules Bordet and Paul Ehrlich,” Journal of the History of Biology, 30: 321-356