The Network Collective Rise and Fall of a Scientific Paradigm - Eichmann, Klaus; SpringerLink (Online service) (Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2008)
Autobiographical note -- Autobiographical note -- Scientific Knowledge, Delusive or Deductive -- Realism, constructivism, and the naiveté of the experimental scientist -- Beyond underdeterminism: Popper, Kuhn, et al. -- The anthropology of science: Ludwik Fleck et al. -- The science wars -- Origins, Rise, and Fall of the Network Paradigm -- The immune system, pre-network paradigms -- The necessity for an interactive theory of immunity -- Proto-ideas of the network theory: antibody self-regulation, idiotypy, the brain analogy, and cybernetics -- The idiotypic network theory -- The T cell receptor puzzle -- Suppression turned idiotypic -- Network mannerism -- Post-network immunology: Idiotypic network continues at the bedside -- Hindsight -- Science between Fact and Fiction -- The fictional nature of scientific notions -- Fiction turned fact: The case of antibodies -- The enticing network: Fiction forever -- Logic and laws in life science.
Keywords: Life sciences; Life Sciences, general