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  1. Immunity and Its Other: The anaphylactic selves of Charles Richet.Kenton Kroker - 1999 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 30 (3):273-296.
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  • Justifying molecular images in cell biology textbooks: From constructions to primary data.Norberto Serpente - 2016 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 55:105-116.
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  • ‘Trouble from within’: allergy, autoimmunity, and pathology in the first half of the twentieth century.Ohad Parnes - 2003 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 34 (3):425-454.
    Traditionally, autoimmune disease has been considered to be a case of false recognition; the immune system mistakenly identifies 'self' tissues as foreign, attacking them thus causing damage and malady. Accordingly, the history of autoimmunity is usually told as part ot the history of immunology, that is, of theories and experiments relating to the ability of the immune system to discriminate between self and nonself. This paper challenges this view, claiming that the emergence of the notion of autoimmunity in the 1950s (...)
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  • Conversations in Isis about the Usefulness of Metaphors.Robert Fyke - 2024 - Isis 115 (3):621-632.
    If we look at Isis as an archive of research articles representing ways in which historians have written about science over the past century, then one changing practice can be found in discussions of the usefulness of metaphors in the history of the sciences. During the first half of Isis’s history, metaphors were represented in stable categories: image studies, scientific analogies, diffusion, and individual scientists associated with metaphor. Beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, tools drawn from sociology, feminism, and the (...)
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  • Was Kekule's Mind Brainbound? The Historiography of Chemistry and the Philosophy of Extended Cognition.".David Theodore - 2009 - Spontaneous Generations 3 (1):158-177.
    This article examines the revisionist role that current debates and philosophical positions on extended cognition might play for the historian of science, and uses as its case study August Kekulé’s formulation of the benzene molecule’s structure, including the dreams that Kekulé reported as the origin of his model. It builds on the notion of engaging philosophical positions through the historiography of nineteenth-century chemistry, but also examines some of the implications of the history of science for extended cognition. While an extended (...)
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  • Blobel and Sabatini’s “Beautiful Idea”: Visual Representations of the Conception and Refinement of the Signal Hypothesis.Michelle Lynne LaBonte - 2017 - Journal of the History of Biology 50 (4):797-833.
    In 1971, Günter Blobel and David Sabatini proposed a novel and quite speculative schematic model to describe how proteins might reach the proper cellular location. According to their proposal, proteins destined to be secreted from the cell contain a “signal” to direct their release. Despite the fact that Blobel and Sabatini presented their signal hypothesis as a “beautiful idea” not grounded in experimental evidence, they received criticism from other scientists who opposed such speculation. Following the publication of the 1971 model, (...)
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  • The Collective Construction of a Scientific Fact: A Re-examination of the Early Period of the Wassermann Reaction (1906–1912). [REVIEW]Henk van den Belt - 2011 - Social Epistemology 25 (4):311 - 339.
    Ludwik Fleck is widely recognized as a precursor of Science and Technology Studies, but his case study on the development of the Wassermann reaction as a test for detecting syphilis has never been subjected to detailed empirical scrutiny. The fact that Fleck?s monograph is based on a limited set of documentary sources makes his work vulnerable to uncharitable critics. The problematic relation between thought collective and individual scientists in Fleck?s theoretical approach is another reason for a systematic re-examination of his (...)
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  • “Ehrlich färbt am längsten”. Sichtbarmachung bei Paul Ehrlich.Axel C. Hüntelmann - 2013 - Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 36 (4):354-380.
    Abstract“Staining is the Best Policy”. Visualization in the work of Paul Ehrlich. For nearly all of his life, the biomedical scientist Paul Ehrlich dedicated himself to work on dyes and staining at the interface between so‐called color‐chemistry and histopathology. The article begins by sketching out the field of histopathology at the junction of pathological anatomy, microtechniques, and the development of chemical dyes in the early 1870s when Ehrlich began his training as a medical student. The article explores Ehrlich's work staining (...)
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  • Medical Imaging: Pictures, “as if” and the Power of Evidence. [REVIEW]Irmgard Müller & Heiner Fangerau - 2010 - Medicine Studies 2 (3):151-160.
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