Immunology has always relied on metaphorical language. In its early beginnings, it varied between bellicose images and images that stressed the interaction of immunity mechanisms with the organism's physiological functions overall. In the late nineteenth century, white blood globules were not only compared to 'border police' assigned to rebuffing intruders- an army formed to combat the invaders - but were also described as a physiological mechanism for eliminating aged, dead cells, at times exterminators of foreign bodies. Antibodies were described as very powerful, deadly weapons but also as an integral part of mechanisms that allowed cells to assimilate food. This duality of images holds true today. The article analyzes the emergence and ...
Previous research has examined biomedical metaphors in discourses on military intervention, counter-...
The article deals with the historical development of passive immunity therapies in infectious diseas...
O conhecimento dos principais mecanismos de defesa imune contra os diversos agentes infecciosos perm...
Immunology has always relied on metaphorical language. In its early beginnings, it varied between be...
Abstract In this paper we examine the role played by metaphor in a corpus of sixty abstracts on immu...
This article identifies, describes and analyzes specific instances of metaphors used to represent an...
This article revisits long-standing critiques of the role of metaphor in immunological discourse. Dr...
Without disputing the richness of the original incarnation of the immune self – conceived in segrega...
This article identifies, describes and analyzes specific instances of metaphors used to represent an...
The immune system has different cells producing different substances whose objective is to defend th...
University of Minnesota master's thesis. Spring 2013. Degree: Master of Liberal Studies. Advisor: Da...
Polysemie and polyphonic history of the word "receptor" in immunology. Immunology abounds in metaph...
Historically, immunology emerged as a biomedical science, concerned with host defense and production...
Without disputing the richness of the original incarnation of the immune self – conceived in segrega...
My reading of David Napier's article foregrounds or highlights (1) a key scientific “discovery” or o...
Previous research has examined biomedical metaphors in discourses on military intervention, counter-...
The article deals with the historical development of passive immunity therapies in infectious diseas...
O conhecimento dos principais mecanismos de defesa imune contra os diversos agentes infecciosos perm...
Immunology has always relied on metaphorical language. In its early beginnings, it varied between be...
Abstract In this paper we examine the role played by metaphor in a corpus of sixty abstracts on immu...
This article identifies, describes and analyzes specific instances of metaphors used to represent an...
This article revisits long-standing critiques of the role of metaphor in immunological discourse. Dr...
Without disputing the richness of the original incarnation of the immune self – conceived in segrega...
This article identifies, describes and analyzes specific instances of metaphors used to represent an...
The immune system has different cells producing different substances whose objective is to defend th...
University of Minnesota master's thesis. Spring 2013. Degree: Master of Liberal Studies. Advisor: Da...
Polysemie and polyphonic history of the word "receptor" in immunology. Immunology abounds in metaph...
Historically, immunology emerged as a biomedical science, concerned with host defense and production...
Without disputing the richness of the original incarnation of the immune self – conceived in segrega...
My reading of David Napier's article foregrounds or highlights (1) a key scientific “discovery” or o...
Previous research has examined biomedical metaphors in discourses on military intervention, counter-...
The article deals with the historical development of passive immunity therapies in infectious diseas...
O conhecimento dos principais mecanismos de defesa imune contra os diversos agentes infecciosos perm...