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(Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology.) By Alfred I. Tauber. 354 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1994. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-46188-X.

With the publication of this book, Alfred I. Tauber, a physician and clinical investigator, joins company with today's leading scholars of the history and philosophy of science. His earlier work with Leon Chernyak on Elie Metchnikoff (Metchnikoff and the Origins of Immunology: From Metaphor to Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991) was a superb analysis of Metchnikoff's thoughts about science and about how Darwin, who preceded Metchnikoff by almost a generation, influenced Metchnikoff. That book recounted how Metchnikoff broke away from the rigidity of 19th-century science despite the risk to his career, just as he was establishing himself . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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