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Volume 342:667-668 March 2, 2000 Number 9

Tending Adam's Garden

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By Irun R. Cohen. 288 pp. San Diego, Calif., Academic Press, 2000. $49.95. ISBN 0-12-178355-3.

Immunology is in crisis. Despite advances in the knowledge of molecular mechanisms and therapies made in the past 25 years, the structure of the theory that has guided the discipline since the 1950s is collapsing. Irun Cohen, a leading experimental and theoretical immunologist, is one of the prophets who clearly sees the limits of current dogma and who has the vision to propose new alternatives. Not content with continuing his argument with fellow immunologists alone, he designed his book for a wide readership.

Tending Adam's Garden can be roughly divided into two parts. The first half serves as background for . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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