Organism and the Origins of Self - Tauber, A.I.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1991)
I: Historical Perspectives -- Introduction: Speculations Concerning the Origins of the Self -- Editor's Comments to Löwy -- The Immunological Construction of the Self -- II: The Immune / Cognitive Self -- Editor's Comments to Varela, Chernyak and Tauber -- Organism: A Meshwork of Selfless Selves -- The Dialectical Self: Immunology's Contribution -- Editor's Comments to Root-Bernstein -- Self, Nonself, and the Paradoxes of Autoimmunity -- III: Evolution of the Self -- Editor's Comments to Foster and Sarkar -- Directed Mutation in Escherichia coli: Theory and Mechanisms -- Lamarck contre Darwin, Reduction versus Statistics: Conceptual Issues in the Controversy over Directed Mutagenesis in Bacteria -- Editorial Comments to Sober by Sarkar -- Organisms, Individuals, and Units of Selection -- Editor's Comments to Williamson -- Sequential Chimeras -- Editor's Comments to Gilbert -- The Role of Embryonic Induction in Creating Self -- Epilogue: The Uncut Self.
Keywords: Immunology; Evolutionary biology; Biology-Philosophy.; Animal anatomy; Immunology; Evolutionary Biology; Philosophy of Biology; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology