ON METAPHOR: Reciprocity and Immunity

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Fischer, Michael M. J.
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Abstract
My reading of David Napier's article foregrounds or highlights (1) a key scientific “discovery” or observation; (2) the history of shifting high level metaphors as key new biological mechanisms are apprehended; (3) three key contemporary problems in immunological biology identified by Napier (transplantation, tumor immunology, autoimmune diseases); and (4) the ways in which popular culture takes up new scientific terminologies as folk “philosophemes” or cultural components for apprehending sociocultural change.
Date issued
2012-02
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95956
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society
Journal
Cultural Anthropology
Publisher
Wiley Blackwell
Citation
FISCHER, MICHAEL M. J. “ON METAPHOR: Reciprocity and Immunity.” Cultural Anthropology 27, no. 1 (February 2012): 144–152. © 2012 The American Anthropological Association.
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08867356
1548-1360
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