MODERN IMMUNOLOGY: CONTRADICTORY STATE IN “REALM OF IDEAS” AND “REALM OF THINGS”

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33876/2224-9680/2019-2-18/07

Abstract

Discussed in the interview is the evolution of beliefs about the organism’s so-called “vital force”. These beliefs influenced the development and establishment of immunology as science. Modern immunology is facing several theoretical and methodological problems linked with “subjectness” of its basic categories – “friend or foe”, “danger signal”, etc., as well as with “objectness” of its material components – immune cells, antibodies, cytokines, etc. These problems are very relevant to medical anthropology. Also discussed is the problem of the influence of cultural discourse on medical knowledge modeling. The text pays attention to the development prospects of the notion “immunity” and, more generally, immunology.

Citation link:

Manichkin N. A., Goloviznin M. V. (2019). Modern Immunology: Contradictory State in “Realm of Ideas” and “Realm of Things” [Sovremennaja immunologija: protivorechivoe sostojanie v “mire idej” i “mire veshhej”]. Medical Anthropology and Bioethics [Medicinskaja antropologija i biojetika], 2 (18).

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